2008 Exhibition info!

Edo Photo Gallery at Solo Hill is now open one weekend a month for visitors. 

Open Time: Closed until March!

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Current Exhibitions:

Three Person Pinhole Exhibition in Chemnitz Germany
at Neue Sächsische Galerie  "Ever Present Past"
December 9, 2008 - Feb 1, 2009. Pinhole Works by Edward Levinson, Willie Anne Wright, and Craig Barber. The show is curated by Marko Hehl. This is a big venue and 40 photos by each artist will be on display. Edo plans to visit the exhibition on Jan 24 when a celebration will be held. An artist talk is planned for that event. A two page spread about the show including 5 photos by Edo will appear in the German magazine "DasMagazin" a city magazine founded in Berlin in 1924. Magazine goes on sale Dec.26, 2008
Gallery Website:  http://www.neue-saechsische-galerie.de/

Previous Exhibitions 2008:

Group Show "Naked Tokyo"

December 9 -14 in Tokyo. Group show with  collection of photographers of various nationalities. Edo had five photos in the show.  His works were color pinhole images made with the three pinhole Pinhole Blender camera.

held at Gallery Deco in Shibuya

www.nakedtokyo.com
Gallery Deco


Edo's Pinhole Exhibition in Monbetsu, Hokkaido
 
was held July 28 - August 17. This was part of the Pinhole Photographic Art Society (PPAS) event that was held August 7-9 in Monbestu Hokkaido at the Mombestu Municipal Musuem. Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer of the Pinhole Resource were in attendance for a symposium and also held an exhibition at the same venue.
more info IN JAPANESE
http://ppas.jp/modules/news/article-41.php


Pinhole Event in Ichihara Chiba. Edo displayed 16 images from his Pinhole Landscapes series at the Ichihara City "Mizu to Chokoku no Oka" Museum in Minami Ichihara Chiba-ken, as part of a month long pinhole event held from August 1 - 31.

Ichihara City "Mizu to Chokoku no Oka" Museum Japanese home page
http://www.ichihara-kankou.or.jp/choukoku/index2.html

Exhibition in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture Japan.
March 8 - March 16 at Fukui Ken Sakai-shi Heartopia Harue Hall. 9:30am-18:30pm
Twenty photos from several series were on display as well as pinhole photographs by local pinholers.

Edo was there for a talk show and book signing on March 15.



"Heartgraphy" photo exhibition held in Chikura, Chiba Prefecture Japan
Jan 29- Feb 24 at Gallery  Schiele.

This was a quaint gallery in a remodeled old Japanese style farmhouse on the sunny Boso Peninsula Coast two hours from Tokyo. On display were 30 photographs from the Healing Landscapes series. The talk show on Feb 10 was a full house and the show was well attended by people from all over Chiba Prefecture and even visitors from Tokyo.



2007 shows below here:

Fall Exhibition held in Kyoto Sept 2007


Edo had  a show in Kyoto at Gallery Ississ. This was
his
third show at this gallery and the first one man
show in Kyoto since 2005. He showed work from the newest series, "Silhouette Stories". Work from the
"Silhouette Stories" can be seen in the gallery section of this site


http://www.ississ.jp






Edo san's Pinhole Photo Exhibition
a show celebrating the Publishing of Edo's new Japanese book:
gEdo's Lessons In Pinhole Photography -Photography for Slow LifehPublished by Iwanami Publishers.
July 17th -28th at gallery
NADAR/SHIBUYA355  
The show consisted of two walls showcasing some of Edo's images from the book and as well one wall showing work by the 12 "students" who are featured in the book.

There
was a talk show titled "Slow Life and Photography" on July 21
 
  
photos: Gallery at Nadar


Two Person Show held in Richmond Virginia USA

Edo exhibited new photos and plus some images from his book from the Healing Landscapes series from April 27 -May 30 together with Herb Pulliam a landscape painter at white Canvas Gallery in Richmond VA USA. Some work remains on the wall in another space of the gallery and the gallery is keeping the rest of the work in their bins.  So there is still achance to see the photos if you missed the show. White Canvas Gallery keeps a number of my prints in the gallery and is also selling my book.
A good chance to see some of my work on the East Coast of the USA. For more details visit White Canvas Gallery





"Pinhole Planet" group show
Kyoto Japan May 29- June 3, 2007
Held at Gallery Space@›˘  

This show featured pinhole work from a group of international photographers from the USA, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Hong Kong. Thailand, and Korea. I had two pieces in the show which also features work by pinhole friends Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer of the Pinhole Resource and Zernike Au artist and maker of pinhole cameras from Hong Kong. John Einarsen founding editor of the Kyoto Journal who has featured my work in that magazine also participated. Other artists included John Ashburne, Stephano Bandini, Brice Bischoff , Sivanon Chaichorfa, Bethany De Forest, Jong, sun Lee, Hyun-Seok Sim.



Hari-Ana 2007 ("hari ana" means "pinhole" Japanese)
Tokyo , May 29- June 3, 2007

This was a "call for entries" show was held
at Roonee 247 Photography in Yotsuya Tokyo.
I participated as a guest (my image "Follow the Line" appears on the DM card). I gave  a talk show and made comments on the exhibited photos on June 3rd .



Roonee sells many pinhole goods and my signed copies of my books. For more info visit their website at http://www.roonee.com/    or call  03-3341-8118


Group Exhibition in France

As a founding team member of Worldwide Pinhole Photogrpahy Day and a participant in the International  "Flying Pinhole" project Edo had three pieces in this show which was coordinated by Jean Daubas a French photographer and Pinhole Artist. Other "Flying Pinhole" photographers are Guillermo Penate, Canada; Gregg Kemp, USA; Rosanne Stutts, USA;  Zernike Au, Hong Kong.

Jean Daubas  / membres de l' international Flying Pinhole Camera Group / étudiants de l'Erba
"Camera Obscura"
"Le Gymnase" espace culturel IUFM Franche-Comté
IUFM
Fort Griffon
BESANCON, 25  Doubs, France
DATES: March 13, 2007 - April 6, 2007

More info at http://www.pinhole.com/events/1302



Exhibitions in 2006 below here

The most recent exhibition by Edward Levinson was held Sept 19 - Oct 1, 2006 at Roonee 247 Photography in Yotsuya Tokyo. The show included some first time showings as well as images from the book and a workshop.

                             

 The owner and director of Roonee formerly worked as one of the directors at the Tokyo Photographic Culture Center and is working hard to promote knowledge of fine art photography. The gallery also has strong interest in alternative processes including pinhole. They have a shop selling pinhole cameras, books (including mine!) and offer framing an matting serivces. Visit their website at http://www.roonee.com/    or call  03-3341-8118





Recent Summer Edward Levinson Exhibition of New Work and Book Publishing Show was held

June 19 - July 8th 2006



This was the 4th one man show at this venue. The exhibition featured a completely new series of work on one floor and special editions of photographs from my first fine art photo book which was published in June on the other two floors. All photographs were black and white pinhole photographs.