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…

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…

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…

After being featured at the New Orleans Photo Alliance (in celebration of winning the 2017 Clarence John Laughlin Award), at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, and at Center for Photographic Arts’ State of the Art exhibition at the R. Blitzer Gallery in Santa Cruz, Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures exhibition will…

Takigawa Design’s most recent book design project, Ernest Hemingway—Artifacts from a Life, spanned the better part of a year and half. The 240 page book is illustrated with over 400 images sourced from the JFK Library archives. Together, Michael Katakis (Author), Sean Hemingway (Foreword), and Patrick Hemingway (Afterword) convey a one-of-a-kind, stunning tribute to…