Artist Talk with Hiroyo Kaneko in conversation with Ann Jastrab
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT
On Tuesday, March 30th, SF Camerawork welcomed photographer Hiroyo Kaneko, who shared work from her first monograph, “Appearance,” which presents portraits of people in the act of singing. Contributing essayist Ann Jastrab spoke with Hiroyo and answered q&a from the audience. The evening also included special appearances from two of Hiroyo’s subjects -- Chris Barnett and Jesse Sahbi.
Published last year in Japan, “Appearance” is now available in San Francisco at local bookstore The Green Arcade.
Images courtesy of Hiroyo Kaneko
ABOUT HIROYO KANEKO
Hiroyo Kaneko is a photographer based in Oakland, CA. She was born in Aomori, Japan. When she was 18 years old, she started to borrow an old manual Pentax from her father. Since then she has been enthusiastic about visual expression in photography. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in French Literature from Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Japan at spaces including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photographic Center Northwest, SF Camerawork, Nikon Gallery and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Kaneko is a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography 2009 and a winner of Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio Competition 2012.
Hiroyo has taught at University of California, Davis and Rayko Photo Center, and is currently a lecturer in Photography at De Anza College.
ABOUT ANN JASTRAB
Ann Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA evolved out of their predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography. Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann was the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the living legends of photography. Ann was also the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017.
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