Workshop with Osamu Kanemura, Hiroko Komatsu, and Victor Sira
Saturday, November 6, 2021, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
dieFirma Print Room [PR] is delighted to announce its first in-person workshop in our Cooper Square location. Join us on Saturday, November 6 at our new [PR] space for portfolio reviews and conversations on photography, collages, videos, and books. The workshop will be led by celebrated Japanese photographers, Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu, alongside New York-based Venezuelan photographer Victor Sira.
The workshop will help you identify your next step as a photographer—from finding your own voice as an artist to the process of discovering and making the work you’re passionate about. Kanemura and Komatsu will share insight into their process of creating their photographs, collages, videos, installations, and books. In addition, Victor Sira will provide an overview of the development of the book as an idea and as an object.
All staff, artists, students, and guests are required to show proof of vaccination upon entering dieFirma and must wear a mask covering the nose and mouth at all times. For further information please refer to current local guidelines provided by New York City as well as the CDC website.
For more information please email contact@diefirmanyc.com.
BIOS
Osamu Kanemura (b.1964) is a photographer born and based in Tokyo. He has been photographing the city-scapes in black and white, since 1992, he has had more than twenty solo exhibitions in Tokyo, New York, and other cities. His works have been featured in many exhibitions, including the 1996 'New Photography 12,' The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the 1997 'Absolute Landscape,' Yokohama Museum of Art, the 2004 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, and the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.
His 2002 photobook, "Spider's Strategy" is widely known as his major publication. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, as well as in other public and private collections.
He received the New Photographer Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1997 and the Ken Domon Prize in 2000.
Hiroko Komatsu (b. 1969) is a photographer born in Kanagawa, based in Tokyo. Komatsu’s award-winning large-scale gallery installations and hand-made photobooks explore the vital materiality of photographic images in the context of the increasing dematerialization of images. Her works have been featured in many exhibitions, including the 2018, 'The 43rd Ihei Kimura award winner’s exhibition', Nikon Plaza Osaka, and Nikon / THE GALLERY Shinjuku, Tokyo, the 2019 'DECODE / Events & Materials, The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society', The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama. Her work is in the public collections of MAST (Bologna, Italy) and Tate Modern (London, UK).
She received the 43rd Ihei Kimura Award for her installation in 2018.
Victor Sira is a Venezuela-born photographer whose work has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He curated the show Photography Book Dummies at the School of International Center of Photography. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles 2005 and the show De l’Europe in Luxemburg 2007. Sira was on the faculty at the ICP-Bard MFA Advanced Photographic Studies Program in New York, where he taught the course The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop Process. He is co-founder of Bookdummypress (bdp) and co-founder of dieFirma Print Room [PR].