Photograph from Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures series included in New England School of Photography’s “Audacity of Hope” exhibition

Minatos, from Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures series, will be included in the New England School of Photography’s 4th Annual Juried show: The Audacity of Hope. Juried by Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, the exhibition invited artists to “submit thematic work which celebrates the tenacity…

Balancing Cultures Selected for Candela Books + Gallery’s Unbound8!

Unbound! is an invitational and juried exhibition by Candela Books + Gallery. UnBound! generates opportunities and exposure beyond the traditional juried show by providing a collection opportunity for artists. During the exhibition, an annual gala event is held to raise funds, which allows Candela to purchase select works from the exhibition….

Jerry Takigawa’s False Food series will be shown at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

To tie in with its summer speaker series, focusing on plastics and the environment, the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History will exhibit photographs from Jerry Takigawa’s False Food series. False Food portrays plastic waste—recovered from dead albatross—in surprising and unfamiliar contexts. Presenting the problem in a different light, Takigawa believes, can promote new ways…

Balancing Cultures photographs included in Atlanta Photography Group’s Portfolio 2019 exhibition

Ten photographs from Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures series have been selected to be part of Atlanta Photography Group’s Portfolio 2019 exhibition. Juror Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, chose work from five artists, “chosen to represent the best of contemporary photography from a…

Keep the Channel Open Podcast Interview with Jerry Takigawa

Mike Sakasegawa hosts a podcast called Keep the Channel Open  that features conversations with artists, writers, and curators. He discovered Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures project on Aline Smithson’s blog, Lenscratch. On December 26, 2018, Mike interviewed Jerry at Takigawa Design on Cannery Row in Monterey, California. In this conversation, Mike talked…