Japanese photographer Shinya Arimoto has been invited by the Japan Foundation in Cairo to talk about his career on March 1 at 6 p.m.
Arimoto, one of Japan’s leading contemporary portrait photographers, has received several prestigious awards in Japan for his photo book on Tibet, published in 1988, and for his work on Shinjuku, a busy commercial and entertainment district of Tokyo.
“The photographer perceives Tokyo as a single ecosystem on a grand cycle, and his photographs reflect the primitive vitality found in the ever-changing city and the essential and fundamental humanity, which is obscured by the city,” the Foundation said in a statement.
On March 2, he will give a one-day workshop, themed ‘Typical Egypt’, in co-operation with the Photography School of Cairo, also known as Photopia.
Participants in the five and a half hour workshop, which starts at 12 noon, will need to bring a digital camera, a laptop, and an HDML cable. Admission is free.
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