Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Schaefer International Gallery will present the group exhibition  FOCUS, featuring seven contemporary Japanese photographers who go by the collective name of “photography?end?”. The group consists of Yuji Hamada, Ken Kitano, Miki Nitadori, Yuki Onodera, Naruki Oshima, Risaku Suzuki, and Kazuyoshi Usui. Their respective avenues of work look at the potentiality of photography in a rapidly evolving digital age. While the production of images has become largely dematerialized in our current moment, the artists consider the materiality of photography and explore the relationship between conception, theme, and exhibition of work.

Header image:
Yuki Onodera
Guernapur, 2018
charcoal, crayon, gelatin-silver print, collage on canvas
 
Primal Mountain
Yuji Hamada
Primal Mountain, 2014
installation at Lake Léman for Festival Images 2014
Gathering Light, Ogijima, Kagawa
Ken Kitano
Gathering Light, Ogijima, Kagawa
film exposure from winter solstice 2017 to summer solstice 2018
Odyssey: Reflect
Miki Nitadori
Odyssey: Reflect, 2014-2020
installation at Ancien Musée de Peinture, Grenoble, France
Reflections 0606
Naruki Oshima
Reflections 0606, 2006
Lambda print
White 24, H-3
Risaku Suzuki
White 24, H-3, 2024
chromogenic print
Showa 88 #39
Kazuyoshi Usui
Showa 88 #39, 2011
archival pigment print
Supported by the Japan Foundation
Japan Foundation