CIRCLE-24 member:
Tetsuro TAKAI
TETSURO TAKAI
1951 - Gifu City, Japan
Award winning, Japanese photographer, Tetsuro TAKAI, is to stage his latest exhibition in Glasgow. He is a photographer who has developed his own style for making separations in colour and has kept a genuine Japanese atmosphere in his way of visualising in photography.
Both Tetsuro and gallery owner, Donald NISBET (MNS photocolour, Glasgow) are members of CIRCLE-24, a worldwide foundation of professional photographers who keep each other informed about trends and developments."Circle 24 is made up of photographers all earning a living from commercial work and all of a like mind, that photography is more than just a job. This event is the latest exhibition run by the foundation as a means of expressing creative talents to the full and portraying photography as an art form", says Donald, "We are setting out to show quality photography from all over the world."
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In 1989 Tetsuro co-founded 'ZERO' a circle of about 20 photographers, graphic designers and publishers who produced group shows and books together. They were all drawn together by an equal desire to contact "a variety of questions and anxieties, delights and dreams" through photography. "What is significant to me is not something I see but something that lies in between", he explains.
Sometimes he focuses on abstract themes and some mere patterns or a haze of colour.
He is a commercial photographer specialising in advertisements for jewellery and cosmetics, with assignments for most of the big beauty companies including Estee Lauder and Clarins. They lend themselves perfectly to his style of close-ups, detail, subdued elegance relying on a lot of play with light and colour.
First solo exhibition - Kodak Photo Salon, Tokyo
Tetsuro studied at the Osaka Photographic Professional School then continued his training at two photostudios. Tetsuro has exhibited his work from Belgium to Bombay, gaining many notable achievements along the way.
AWARDS
Finland Lahti Poster Biennale - Grand Prize
USA Clio Award
Japan Advertising Photographers Association (APA) Award
Magazine AD - Gold Prize
chairman of the Japan Advertising Photographers Association
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CIRCLE-24: about Tetsuro TAKAI ..
28.2.98-5.4.98 Tetsuro Takai, "Something in Between"
Danmarks Fotomuseum, Herning, Danmark
Tetsuro Takai - Japan
(1951 Gifu City, Japan)
Finland Lahti Poster Biennale-Grand Prize (Finland),
USA Clio Award
Japan APA Award
Magazine AD Prize - Gold Prize
Kodak Photo Salon: One-man show
"The existence of objects,
is only ‘existence’
when I sense a certain relationship
between the objects themselves,
or between them and myself..
What is significant to me
is not a presence I see,
but something which lies inbetween.
And this ‘something inbetween’
is precisely that which
I initially consider
as the theme of my images.
Handling light
shifting objects
always watching
and in the light, darkness and air
I try to establish something new
In my viewfinder, unfamiliar worlds suddenly appear.
And they are sometimes fixed on my film forever.
Perhaps,
the reason I still want to take photographs is that
I relish the pleasure of confirming something hazy
which always tickles at my heart
through photography.
What kinds of worlds lie ahead of me?
Exciting, thrilling, heart-pounding...
leading me to another tomorrow
I study photography.
What defines a nice form?
What brings out beautiful colors?
What makes me feel good?
I study this and that...
...various things...
This is why I named my studio
‘Laboratory’.
Mystique sparkles together with light. Mysterious figures blend with the darkness.We are poised halfway between these two mysteries. At once alight, then set into darkness. Here, we hold to the eternal dream of glory.
The existence of objects, is only 'existence' when I sense a certain relationship between the objects themselves, or between them and myself.. What is significant to me is not a presence I see, but something which lies in between. And this 'something in between' is precisely that which I initially consider as the theme of my images.
Handling light, shifting objects, always watching and in the light, darkness and air I try to establish something new Is this act my desire to peer into another space?
Or, I may try to create the entrance to a time-tunnel. Then, my mind romps off to an utterly different world. In my fviewfinder, unfamiliar worlds suddenly appear. And they are sometimes fixed on my film forever.
Perhaps, the reason I still want to take photographs is that I relish the pleasure of confirming something hazy which always tickles at my heart through photography. What kinds of worlds lie ahead of me? Exciting, thrilling, heart-pounding... leading me to another tomorrow. I study photography. What defines a nice form?
What brings out beautiful colors? What makes me feel good? I study this and that... ...variuos things... This is why I named my studio 'Laboratory'.
My hair is hard, but I think the inside of my head is very flexible and soft, unlike my hair. When I'm absorbed in photography, I don't shave. So, while I'm studying, my hair is tousled and my face unshaven. I am now 40 years old.
This photograph is my favorite portrait of myself ...hoping that... as I grow older and become a very old man, I will still be studying in high spirits just as I do now.
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