Jun Abe
Jun Abe is a Japanese street photographer and educator who lives and works in Osaka. He was the official photographer of the butoh dance group Byakko-sha from 1982 to 1994.
Jun Abe
- Born
- 1955 · Osaka.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Jun Abe is a Japanese street photographer and educator who lives and works in Osaka. He was the official photographer of the butoh dance group Byakko-sha from 1982 to 1994.
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Life and work
Life and work
Abe was born in Osaka. He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka). From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha, a butoh dance group based in Kyoto. In this capacity he travelled extensively in 1982 and 1983. From 2002 Abe has taught at the Visual Arts Osaka college. He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006. Since 2013 he has been represented by Hatten Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• 2006: Black & White Note: Box, Gallery 10:06, Osaka. • 2012: Citizens/1983, Gallery Niépce, Tokyo. • 2012/2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. • 2013: Black & White Note, Black & White Note 2, Place M Photo Gallery, Tokyo. Related to his Society of Photography Award.
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• 2011: Citizens, Quad Gallery, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 4 March–8 May 2011. • 2013: Paris Photo, Grand Paris, Paris. Presented by The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. • 2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. With Miyako Ishiuchi. Part of the exhibition Paris Photo 2013. • 2014: FotoIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October – 18 November 2014.
Publications
• = Kurīchāzu: Kami no kemono-tachi = Creaturers. Village, 1989.. Black and white photographs; essay by Isamu Ōsuka and artist chronology in Japanese. • = Ōsaka. Osaka: Vacuum, 2007.. Vacuum Press 1. Colour photographs. • = Citizens: 1979–1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2009.. Vacuum Press 4. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text. • = Kokubyaku nōto: 1996–1999 = Black & white note: 1996–1999. Osaka: Vacuum, 2010.. Vacuum Press 5. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text. • マニラ: August, 1983 = Manira: August, 1983 = Manila: August, 1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2011.. Vacuum Press 7. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text. • = Kokubyaku nōto: 2 = Black & white note 2. Osaka: Vacuum, 2012.. Vacuum Press 9. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text. • 2001. Osaka: Vacuum, 2013.. Vacuum Press 11. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text. • Busan. Osaka: Vacuum, 2014. Black and white photographs. • = 1981 (jō) = 1981: Top. Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 14. First volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs. • = 1981 (ge) = 1981: Bottom. Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 15. Second volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs. • = 1981 Kōbe = 1981: Kobe. Osaka: Vacuum, 2016. • New York. Osaka: Vacuum, 2017. • Citizens in Society 1989~1994. Osaka: Vacuum, 2019.
Awards
• 2013: Society of Photography Award (Shashin no Kai shō) from the Society of Photography.
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