Galerie Catherine & André Hug will present, for the first time in France, Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures photography series. The exhibition will run January 27 to March 25, with a closing reception and book signing on March 23 from 6 to 9 pm.

In Balancing Cultures, Takigawa engages with his personal family narrative—building and photographing temporary collages assembled from his family’s collection of photographs and artifacts from their forced imprisonment in a WWII American internment camp. Jerry Takigawa guides us to the truth—first with eloquent imagery, then invites us to dive deeper into the cues and juxtapositions integrated into his photographs. Photography’s role in helping us understand history is powerful, and Balancing Cultures will surely take its rightful place as a valuable document in this context.

Jerry Takigawa lives and works in Carmel Valley, California, and is an independent photographer, designer, and writer. Exhibited Internationally, he is the recipient of many photographic honors and awards including the Imogen Cunningham Award, the Clarence J. Laughlin Award, CENTER’s Curator’s Choice Award, and the Rhonda Wilson Award. His work is in many permanent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; and the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

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