waterandlightproject

“10 10 10 Days in a City”
SOCO Cafe/Gallery September 17 until October 17 2021

Photo/Video Event A collaboration of photography, video and music, creating with environment, ambience, architecture and acoustics, fantasy experience with large video projection and live music.

Exhibition: As part of the Kyotographie festival in Kyoto Japan
Images of daily life, contributed by photographers from around the world, that represent life in their town. Showing what is uniquely different from life in other countries. Transferred to video, projected one by one, 4 meters wide, 2.5 meters tall filling an entire wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling, in a theater like setting.
** Accompanied music composed by James Whetzel, Brent Arnald (Musicians from Julliard School of Music) Chai Sangco and Joy Abalon Tamayo “an_outskirt” Patrick Suler and Robert O’Connor Assistance and creative support by Ray Lustig.

*Opening night music composed and performed by Kyoto musicians, Chris Fryman and Ko Yasumoto.

** Photographers and cities documented in the video instillation

David Corio, London, England
Tahmineh Monzavi, Iran, Tehran
Sead Šašivarević, Lukomir, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Martin Štokić, Gonsu, China
Gil Kreslavsky, Amarapura, Myanmar
Natalia Knezevic, Los Angeles, USA
Kei Mizuno, Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Punchy Barriola Montevideo, Uruguay

** Concept
Water and Light Project, gathering photographers from around the world for a “Photo Projection” exhibition at SOCO Gallery Kyoto.
An audio-visual immersive experience, featuring a video projected, filling an entire gallery wall.
Photographers showing their perspective of life in their country; people working, playing, surviving, doing daily chores, animals, architecture and nature. Images that show what is unique about their city, country, community and contrasts between other countries.
London England – Lukomir Bosnia and Herzegovina – Los Angeles USA – Tehran Iran – Gansu PR China – Amarapura Myanmar – Montevideo Uruguay – Ratanakiri Cambodia and Kyoto Japan….
In a theater-like setting accompanied by live music, images viewed in a dark walled room with seating, creating the feeling you are where the photos were taken
* At the exhibition opening, a live ensemble performed. For the remainder of the exhibition, music written for the video served as the soundtrack.

Venue Kyoto SOCO Cafe/Gallery, soco-kyoto.com/

** Also showing: “10 10 Kyoto” 10 Framed Photos by Kyoto Photographers
“Photo documentation of daily life in Kyoto”

Each picture capturing people working, playing, surviving, interacting, doing daily chores, animals, architecture and nature. Images that show what is unique about Kyoto and its community. Pictures that show why people love to live in Kyoto.
Atticus Sims
Fred Payet
Sakai Motonari
Simon Slater
Masana Mikami
Taiga Tamura
Arkkapol Dhanarak “Tui”
Stuart Gibson
Lane
Codi Hauka