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A package from Osaka, Japan has arrived safely on Jan 26, 2011. What’s inside? The amazing 145 black & white prints from Yamasaki ko-ji-san. One hundred and forty-five prints! Arigatou, Yamasaki-san!
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Last week, a friend asked me to use one of the wall in his upcoming coffee shop as a photo exhibition space. I said yes right away. A few emails away and a week later, I have friends from all over the world giving positive responds and ready to send me their prints. Thank you, my dear friends, for trusting me with your precious prints. I’m lucky to have you all! Name: currently untitled gallery (you can help me by suggesting a good and catchy name) Location: Bandung, Indonesia Estimated time of opening: end of February 2011 Participants for the first show: Budi Sukmana, Eric Setiawan, Dicky Jiang, Primarita, Kurniadi Widodo, Karolus Naga, Thalia Kamarga, +pelican+, Khairil, Mario Rivera, Bruce Bottomley, Woody Folmer, Yamasaki ko-ji
I think this place will look great. A coffee shop and a photo gallery. Coffee and prints, what a mighty collaboration. A perfect way to spend your afternoon with friends. I can’t drink coffee anymore though. Just give me a cup of tea and I’ll be fine.
This is one of my favourite picture taken somewhere in 2008. The camera, a Rolleiflex SL35, was sold in 2009. I still miss that camera but no regret.
I find it hard to select or sequence or edit my picture on a computer. I prefer to use prints. Yes, computer save money and time but I still love to hold and to feel the prints. It’s only my subjective preference. It’s why I wanted to do this project from the beginning.
This is a fun new way to enjoy photography. Hanging hundreds of prints one by one, with paperclips on strings and others with blue-tack on mirror or wood. Sweats are guaranteed but I’m sure I will enjoy every minutes of it. Note that this is not the final prints selection. It was just a try out, a beta version, for us to see what the prints looked like hanged on the wall. All prints are Budi’s and mine.