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JULIE YOKOSO 320X240 sjtomioka 262 views Julie Dind, a 20 year old French Butoh dancer and Performance Artist; is a student at Waseda University, in Tokyo, Japan. At her coming of age ceremony 成人式, in Shinjuku, sh...
John Paul Caponigro 1 - C sjtomioka 779 views The final part of the 30 min video interview with John Paul Caponigro.
John Paul Caponigro 1 - B sjtomioka 747 views Part of the "Cultural Expressions: Conversations with Photographers" project; this interview is with digital pioneer and photo-based artist, John Paul Caponigro.
John Paul Caponigro 1 - A sjtomioka 3,062 views Part of the "Cultural Expressions: Conversations with Photographers" book and dvd project; this interview is with Digital and Photo-based Artist, John Paul Caponigro.
Steve McCurry 1 - B sjtomioka 2,061 views This is the second half of the Steve McCurry interview.
Steve McCurry sjtomioka 12,575 views An interview with Steve McCurry, a documentary photographer famous for his portraits of Asia. Since the 1980's he has been a frequent contributor to National Geographic Ma...
SERVAS - A light in the Dark - Part 2 sjtomioka 377 views This is the second half of the previous video. I had to split it in to 2 sections because you tube limits the length of videos to 10 min or less. In this video Bob Luitweil...
SERVAS - A light in the Dark - Part 1 sjtomioka 672 views This is a 2 part video based on selected interviews with Bob Luitweiler, about a year before his death. In these two segments he specifically talks about both the origins ...
Folk High Schools in Scandanavia sjtomioka 395 views Here Bob Luitweiler talks about his interest in the Folk High School movement that began in Denmark and his travels in Scandinavia during 1948 - 1949.
Bob Luitweiler - Going to Prison Instead of WAR sjtomioka 1,377 views This is an interview with Bob Luitweiler, the founder of SERVAS, an organization promoting world peace. In this interview I have tried to highlight some of Bob's concerns ...

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This Channel will contain video from a documentary I am working on about SERVAS, an organization promoting a peaceful society through international dialog and fellowship.

Also on this Channel are video interviews that will be part of a book and dvd called "Cultural Expressions: Conversations with Photographers in the US and Japan".

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I am an artist, photographer, printmaker and digital media content creator. The three primary factors that drive my work are: an insatiable curiosity, a continuing sense of wonder and an appreciation of beauty in the world around us, seen and unseen. In 2008 I have begun work on a book and video media project about the lives and work of contemporary photographers in the USA and Japan. In this work, based on a series of interviews, I hope to shed light on the vision of photography in both countries. My own art work can be categorized in three areas of interest: People, Landscapes and Dreamscapes. Later this year in December, I have been invited to exhibit some of my photo-based art work on the subject of Japanese Mythology, at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, in Haifa, Isreael.

In 2005 I received a Master of Fine Art in the areas of Digital Printmaking and Photography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I was born in 1974, in West Palm Beach, Florida (USA) to a Japanese father and an American mother who were both world traveling peace activists during the 1960's. Growing and also as an adult, I have always been moving from place to place and consider myself to be a citizen of the WORLD. Culturally I have one foot in the US and one in Japan, one hand on my passport and the other pointing to the horizon. I do not believe in borders, boundaries, nationalism or religious strictures. I believe in people, diversity, points of view, educational and traditional lineage's of thought, unique regional perceptions, cultural dialogue, philosophy and mythologies. I believe that each person and each culture contains the duality of both uniqueness and universality. The images I create of People and Landscapes are often documentarian in nature; although there are both objective as well as subjective elements present. I try to capture both the uniqueness and universality of each person or place I photograph. Mythology and narrative play an important role in my Dreamscapes which are sequences of digitally juxtaposed images. One series of images I am working with is based upon the Japanese creation myth of Izanagi and Izanami. All of my images carry the seed of narrative with in them and often have an overt storytelling component. It is my belief that narrative provides the context for meaning to take root. In the absence of a stated narrative, the viewer will insert his or her own assumed narrative based on their own context. In open ended imagery the afore mentioned tendency is ideal; however, some images require a more directed contextual approach to deliver a more specific message. I try to accomplish this in an entertaining rather than didactic manner. I believe that art in general and photographs in particular should inspire us with beauty, show us something we have not seen before and inform us about something we do not know.

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