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

Open Time: Next open July 18-19th!

For info in Japanese visit http://solohill.net

For more info in English please contact solo@solohill.net







Recent Exhibitions 2009:

Hariana 2009 Annual Pinhole Show at Roonee 247 Photography
May 26 - 31  A call for entires show celebrating Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was held at Roonee 247 Photogrpahy in Yotsuya 3 Chome Tokyo. Edo participated as guest with two pieces .
Visit Roonee's Japanese website
Edo in Group Show in Kyoto "Interface"
June 5 -11 featuring 10 pinhole artists was held as part of PPAS Pinhole Photo Festival in Kyoto at the AMS Gallery located near Nijo Station. Edo showed color work done with the Pinhole Blender Camera

http://www.amsnet.co.jp/ams/photo/




Edo in Three person Show in Ginza Tokyo "Everylasting Memory"
June 8 - 13 featured Edo as guest showed pinhole photos from the Healing Landscapes series with two Japanese painter artists. Sponsored by Art Management International Incorported http://www.amic.co.jp/
Held at  Gallery Art Point - 

http://www.art-point.jp/





Photo Exhibition featuring photos from Edo and Shizuka Tsuruta's
new book book "The Garden on the Hilltop - A Flower Almanac" (click on "Country Life Books")


An Exhibition "Garden on the Hilltoph
was held at Yaesu Book Center 8th Floor Gallery across the street from Tokyo Station's Yaesu South exit from April 13 -19. Featuring: Photos of seasonal flowers, trees, and garden scenes from his and Shizuka Tsuruta's garden in commemoration of the publishing of their new Japanese book "The Garden on the Hilltop - A Flower Almanac" 80 photos were on display. Most are lens photos but some pinhole images were also be included.

 More than 100 books were sold and our book made the Yaesu Bookstore weekly best sellers list.





 
Mini Pinhole Exhibition in Itabashi Tokyo
"Pinhole Sampler"

A small show was held at the "Itabashi Science and Education Hall" in Itabashi Tokyo

14 black and white pinhole photographs from various series were on display.

This exhibition was  held in conjunction with a pinhole workshop for children who did amazingly well with pinhole boxes and paper negatives.

info in Japanese here
http://www.itbs-sem.jp/guide/index.html






 
9th Annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2009 will be held April 26
. This year my workshop in conjunction with pinhole day  workshop was held in Tokyo on April 26. The
workshop was organized and sponsored by Roonee 247 Photography, a photo gallery in Yotusya Tokyo. A group exhibition "hariana2009" of these images and others will be shown at Roonee from 5/26-31.
Contact Roonee at phone/fax@03-3341-8118 (English OKAY!)
mosimosi@roonee.com
Or Visit Roonee's Japanese website.

 For more info about Pinhole Day visit
 http://www.pinholeday.org/

Group Show celebrating Pinhole Day in Rovereto, Italy
at Foto Paolo Aldi Snc, gallery of photographer Paolo Aldi.
SQS5PO, 2009@

Edo had four photos from the Cityscapes series in this show.

Featured works by:@
Tom Miller - USA
Edward Levinson - Japan (Edo)
Jean Daubas - France
Marja Pirilä – Finland
Daniel Tubio - Argentina
David Tatnall – Australia

FOTO PAOLO ALDI SNC, via Rialto 47, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy

http://www.fotopaoloaldi.it



Previous Exhibitions 2008:

Three Person Pinhole Exhibition in Chemnitz Germany
at Neue Sächsische Galerie   
"Ever Present Past"
December 9, 2008 - Feb 1, 2009 was a big success. Pinhole Works by Edward Levinson, Willie Anne Wright, and Craig Barber were shown. The show was curated by Marko Hehl. This was big venue with 20 photos by each artist  on display. Edo visited the exhibition on Jan 24 when a celebration was held and gave an artist talk and took Polaroid pinhole portraits of visitors to the gallery. A two page spread about the show including 5 photos by Edo appeared in the German magazine "DasMagazin" a city magazine founded in Berlin in 1924.  Several articles about the show also appeared in the local Chemnitz newspapers.






Gallery Website:  http://www.neue-saechsische-galerie.de/





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 LifehPublished 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.