Artist talkFriday 15 October 2010
4:00pm – 6:00am
Naoya Hatakeyama in discussion with Charlotte Cotton
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Naoya Hatakeyama participated in a discussion with Charlotte Cotton, chaired by Professor Chris Wainwright, Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges, University of the Arts London.
About the contributors
Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958. He completed his graduate studies at Tsukuba University in 1984. In 1997 Hatakeyama received the 22nd Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award. His photographs are found in the public collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University of Art Gallery, New Haven, the Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Gallery in London. Hatakeyama has been invited to participate in Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2003 and 2009, and also shortlisted for the Prix Pictet 2009. Hatakeyama represented Japan in the 49th Venice Biennale.
Charlotte Cotton
Charlotte Cotton is the Creative Director at the National Media Museum, taking up the post in 2009. Previously, she was the Curator and Department Head of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Head of Programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1993to 2004. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including, ‘Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs’ (2000), ‘Out of Japan’ (2002), ‘Stepping In and Out: contemporary documentary photography’ (2003) and ‘Guy Bourdin’ (2003). Charlotte is the author and editor of publications such as ‘Imperfect Beauty’ (2000), ‘Then Things Went Quiet’ (2003), ‘Guy Bourdin’ (2003) and ‘The Photograph as Contemporary Art’ (2005).
Professor Chris Wainwright
Professor Chris Wainwright (chair) is the Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges, of the University of the Arts London. He is also President of The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) an organisation representing over 350 European Higher Arts Institutions, and former Chair of the National Association for Fine Art Education in the UK. He is currently a member of The Tate Britain Council and a board member of Cape Farewell, an artist run organisation that promotes a cultural response to climate change.