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●Projecet Details George HASHIGUCHI is a Japanese photographer. He has published many books of documentary photographs so far, and especially these couple of years, he has devoted most of his spare time to the social activities through method of art. In 2003, HASHIGUCHI has established a nongovernmental organization APOCC, which literally means Artistic Peace Operation for Connecting Citizens, and whose motto is Respect the Difference, to continue his activity all over the world. HASHIGUCHI has also been appointed Special Advisor for Cultural Exchange by the Appointment of the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in April, 2004. ●Photography Workshop The age groups around 15-to-20, are the participants of the workshop. They use digital cameras which were all brought from Japan, and take photographs of what they are interested, what they like best, what they are attracted by, and what makes them stop to look at. When people have cameras in their hands, the instruments will stimulate their senses, and the emotions, which remained hidden within them, and even themselves have not noticed, will come out. The purpose of this workshop is not to teach the students how to take nice looking photographs, but to help them find their own characters and talent through photography, to help them find dignity, and even more, to share the joy of artistic expressions together with them. ●Drawing Workshop On photography workshop, we think that the participants of the workshop should be children of a certain age- such as age of around middle teens to early twenties who understand their identity or who can identify themselves in the society. Therefore, since the participant is very limited, we have been worrying the fact that children under that age cannot have an opportunity to join our workshop. Especially, in India, we cannot forget the scene that children of low school age, or those who live near school was looking enviously at our workshop from the entrance of the classroom. Considering the possibility for more children to join the workshop regardless of their age, we reached the idea as doing drawing workshop, in parallel with the camera workshop. The aim of this workshop, as same as photography workshop, is not to teach how to draw the drawings, but to confirm their feelings or interest, or to find out the difference between "myself" and "others", or to share the pleasure "to express" with them through the drawings. The result of the photography / drawing workshop are displayed at school and common place in each town, which means we open its result to the public so that many people in that community can see their works. Moreover, at the end of the tour, we displayed photographs and drawings of all the participants from Varanasi and Leh at HabitatCenter, Delhi from Jul 28 to Aug 4. This time, we also would like to mention one new trial especially; All 4 artists we chose have bookbinding skill as well. As for now, the final result of each workshop take the form of "album" of each students and we let that album keep by them. However, at this time, we plan to not only make the album and leave it to them, but to make "book" (by scanning / printing their photographs / drawings by PC and bookbinding) and provide it to each school or association, and Japan Foundation Delhi office. Keeping their works as a "book" allows many people to see their work all the time. Having such a view for the future, we invite the artists who have bookbinding skill. People in India and Japan live in completely different cultures and different circumstances, of course. However, we are sharing the same period of time on earth. To connect people who live in completely different places is another important purpose of our workshops. After the workshops and exhibitions in India, we will bring back all these works to Japan and will plan to have an exhibition in Tokyo too, so that Japanese people can imagine how the life in India is like, what the children in India are thinking about, what kind of dreams they have. Like this, our workshops around the world will keep on going, connecting people living in different cultures. Hereafter, our workshop will continue to communicate with people in each country not only through photographs, but also through various direction or field of tools. That is what we would like to, and we feel that we are getting closer to grab the ideal style of workshop. We believe that this coming workshop can be the very first step for our dream. George HASHIGUCHI |
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21 Participants of Photography Workshop (Click the bell mark  to see each participants’ work.)
21 Participants of Photography Workshop Occupation (or Grade) / Favorite Colour / Dream
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