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PGI in Tokyo is the second-oldest photography gallery in Japan and in this episode, the actual director of this gallery, Sayaka Takahashi explains to us the evolution of her work as a gallerist for 20 years. When she started her main thought was to attract more people to come to the gallery and now she participates in photo art airs such as AIPAD in NY, portfolio reviews and organized talks. One of her new goals is to sell the work of the artists represented by the gallery to the right institutions. I hope you will like this second episode in English!

1’30- Her studies at Waseda University in Literature with her professor and photography critic Osamu Hiraki, her work experience at the Higashikawa International Photography Festival in Hokkaido and her encounter with Hiroaki Yoshino, the director of PGI Shibaura.

3’30- PGI is a gallery specializing in photography with a labo for preservation and framing. She started to work for PGI as a part-timer in 1998 and became the director in 2010. When he was 18 years old, she heard about the “Onnanoko Shashin” movement (Onnanoko means female and shashin photography) and she was inspired by these female photographers.

8’ – PGI opened in 1979 as a place to look at the physical print. The first commercial photo gallery in Japan is Zeit-Foto Salon which was owned by Etsuro Ishihara and PGI was the second one. The owner of the PGI studied medicine in California and met the photographer Ansel Adams here and he decided to open a gallery when he was back in Tokyo.

10’- When she started as a gallerist her main thought was how to get more people to visit the gallery. They did 10 exhibitions per year, and now 6/8. They started to hold gallery talks, participate in portfolio and events to meet emerging artists, and participated in photo fairs (Tokyo Photo and AIPAD from 2013). After participating in AIPAD, now she has a new goal to place the work of the artists she works with within the right institutions. She learned a lot about photography when speaking with other dealers during AIPAD.

13’34 – In 2022, she sold the work “The map” of Kikuji Kawada to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (an exceptionally large collection of negatives, contact sheets, 87 prints from 1989, plus vintage prints and a first edition from 1965 of the photographic book).

15’ – Another example of a project is the exhibition and the book of Tokuko Ushioda “My Husband” which were released in 2022.

20’- Her pieces of advice for young gallerists are to stay curious and interested in artists and to know their works perfectly to be able to introduce their works to more people.

PGI website : https://www.pgi.ac/en/

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