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Oyako Photo Session (Studio AO)

HoshinoMasayo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:11:32 +0000

– Main Events During the Hayama Art Festival –

May 5 (Children’s Day)

Oyako Photo Session (Studio AO)

Applications are accepted by email.
Please include the following subject line:

E-mail: yoshiko@intheozone.net
Subject: Hayama Art Festival Event — Children’s Day Oyako Photo Session

Date: May 5 (Children’s Day)
Time: 9:00 a.m. – approximately 12:00 p.m.

Details and participation information will be sent directly by email to those who apply.

Official Website

https://www.hayama-artfes.org

Inquiries

yoshiko@intheozone.net

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Screening at the venue “Lanai” during 34th Hayama Art Festival

OYAKODAY admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:35:14 +0000

Main Events During the Hayama Art Festival ①

May 3 (Constitution Memorial Day)

Screening of the film work Spring 1982 (@ Lanai)

A rare film capturing the atmosphere of the Showa era through the eyes of Bruce Osborn, shortly after his arrival in Japan.

The evening will also feature a DJ night with Bruce and friends.

Venue

Lanai

Home of the Masaru & Bruce Two-Person Exhibition.

Bruce first met painter Masaru Fukuda when Fukuda was still working as an art director.
Now, nearly fifty years later, that friendship has become the exhibition Masaru & Bruce.

Official Website

https://www.hayama-artfes.org

Inquiries

yoshiko@intheozone.net

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“The Home to Which the Noise Returns”

OYAKODAY admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:09:31 +0000

This month, we bring you a work that received the Oyako Day Award in last year’s Essay Contest.
Please join us in letting its warmth gently sink in.

Oyako Day Essay Contest 2025 — Prize-Winning Entry

The Home to Which the Noise Returns

There came a day when I stopped going on family trips.
I had been glued to my desk preparing for university entrance exams… or perhaps, I had just come up with that excuse.
The truth was, I simply couldn’t find a reason to go to noisy places with my family anymore.

— In other words, I longed for silence.

My family silently accepted it. Gradually, the number of trips they took without me increased.
They must have sensed that I was yearning for “serenity.”

In my house, silence never truly existed.
The TV was always on, laughter shook the walls, the ventilation fan hummed, and the air conditioner groaned.
Even if I curled up in the furthest corner of the house, the noise would follow me.

— However, when my family was gone, silence would unexpectedly arrive.
A silence so empty it felt almost unnatural.
The body left behind in the stillness experienced a strange sense of liberation.
The air spreading from corner to corner of the room didn’t clear with a “shh” but instead carried a tension, as if it were on the verge of snapping. I tried to merge with it.

I wanted to live in that stillness forever.

…That was my feeling for the first three hours.

Soon, the silence turned into a ringing in my ears, summoning phantom sounds that gnawed at my mind.
I started feeling ill, and in the end, I turned on the TV and played music…

— Ah, please come back.

When the door opened, the noise rushed in.
Laughter bounced through the air, the clinking of dishes echoed, and the TV blared noisily.
I frowned, but deep inside, I felt relieved.

The stillness certainly comforted me.
But it was the noise that connected me to something.

I hear there is something called “OYAKO Day.”
I want to celebrate that day not as a day to give flowers or exchange special words, but simply—
as a day to truly appreciate the value of the noise.

The discomfort of being alone.
The disharmony born from the interactions between parent and child.
That disharmony is my life, my comfort,
— and the place to which I belong.

Nao Sasaki
Age: 22
Ebina City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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34th Hayama Art Festival Exhibition

OYAKODAY admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:21:58 +0000

The Hayama Art Festival is an annual arts festival organized by artists working in Hayama Town, Miura District, Kanagawa, and throughout the Shonan region along Sagami Bay.
It is held each year from mid-April to mid-May, centered around Japan’s Golden Week holidays.

In 2026, the festival will run from April 25 to May 17.
Photographer Bruce Osborn will also participate.

Exhibition Venues

Venue 1: Morito Shrine

《HAYAMA TIME》 Outdoor Installation
A large-scale work composed from landscapes and memories accumulated over 25 years of living in Hayama.

Venue 2: LAH Land

《Flying》 Outdoor Installation
A photographic series in which objects that had completed their purpose were released into the sky and captured in a single instant—an early conceptual starting point for Bruce’s later Nature Calls works.

Venue 3: Lanai

《Masaru & Bruce》 Two-Person Exhibition
Bruce first met painter Masaru Fukuda when Fukuda was still active as an art director. Nearly 50 years later, that connection has finally become this joint exhibition.

Official Website

https://www.hayama-artfes.org

Inquiries

yoshiko@intheozone.net

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Elaheh Abdolahabadi

親子の日 Press — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 01:00:25 +0000

Elaheh Abdolahabadi (Iran)

The family standing in the makeshift photo studio are juxtaposed with the city beyond, creating a blend between portrait and street photography.

Website

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

An instant of Time and Place / Isfahan, Iran / 2010

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Eriko Koga

親子の日 Press — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 01:00:52 +0000

Eriko Koga (Japan)

Father holding his daughter inside of the bell at Myomanji Temple inspired by the story
“Anchin Kiyohime Monogatari”

Website

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

BELL / Kyoto, Japan / 2019

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Ira Block

親子の日 Press — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 01:00:39 +0000

Ira Block is an internationally renowned photographer, teacher, and lecturer who has produced over 30 stories for the National Geographic Magazine. He has led National Geographic Photo Workshops, Expeditions, and private workshops to Mongolia, Bhutan, Cuba, and Tibet where students learn about the culture and photographic vision. His documentary photography work is balanced by a stable of commercial clients for whom he shoots portraits and corporate branding. Ira can best be described as a cultural documentary photographer. He uses his cameras and lights to document people around the world, recording the change in traditions and practices. The changes are most often gradual, which is why he returns to a location time after time after time, helping us see these changes and appreciate them through his eyes—and through social media. Over 335,000 people currently follow him on Instagram. For Ira, this has become the new media for documentary photography. He has had photographic exhibitions around the world. As a Sony Artisan of Imagery, Ira is often called upon to comment and give critical feedback on the Sony products he uses to create his work. His latest book Cuba Loves Baseball: A Photographic Journey documents the culture of Cuba through its love for baseball and sports.

Mother and son playing baseball in front of Estadio Capitán San Luis Stadium, the home of the Pinar del Rio Baseball Team

Website

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

Pinar del Río, Cuba / 2014

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Lenka Klicperova

親子の日 Press — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 01:00:19 +0000

Lenka Klicperova is a journalist and photographer. She started as a reporter, from 2004 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of People and Earth magazine. She has worked in a number of African countries, from Angola to Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has visited Afghanistan several times as a reporter. It also reached Somalia, plagued by several decades of war.

She has received eleven awards and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition, both for photographs and video production.

The journalist and photographer Lenka Klicperová started her career as a news reporter. From 2004 till 2018 she worked as editor-in-chief of Lidé a Země magazine, one of the oldest periodicals in the Czech Republic which focuses on reportages from abroad.

Klicperová visited a number of African countries and worked in Angola, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, and DR Congo. She also traveled to Afghanistan several times as a journalist. Since 2014 she has covered the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Since 2016 she has regularly contributed stories and photographs to the Reflex weekly magazine. She is a co-author of several documentary films (Tears of Congo, Latim – Circumcised, Iraqi Women, Women in the Land of the Taliban, and Unbroken) and a number of television reportages. Her work appears in the various printed periodicals and on TV and the radio. She also gives talks on her work and experiences. She has received nine awards and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition, both for photographs and video production.

In 2010, Mlada Fronta, a Czech publishing house, released a book called Africa Within Us which Klicperová wrote in collaboration with Olga and Václav Šilha and which became a prequel to Africa Within Us II. Her work in Syria resulted in two books entitled In Sight of the Islamic State I and In Sight of the Islamic State II, which were co-authored by Markéta Kutilová. After their first trip to Syria Klicperová and Kutilová started a public fundraiser called SOS to support schools and health care facilities in the northern Syrian town of Kobani.

In 2018 Klicperová and Kutilová published their third joint book In the War. It tells stories of people affected by the war in Iraq and Syria.

In 2018 Forbes magazine (Czech edition) rated Klicperová among the 18 most inspiring people of the year.

In 2019, a book called AK47 was published. It focuses on the dramatic life of the world-famous Czech war photographer Antonín Kratochvíl. Klicperová wrote the text of the book, which she processed from Antonín’s narration. The other two books were published again with Markéta Kutilová in 2020 – War is my Fate (focused again on Syria) and Medics on the First Line. The book deals with the struggle of health professionals with the disease COVID –19 in the Czech Republic. In September 2020, war broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh. Lenka Klicperová and Markéta Kutilová quickly moved to the center of fightings. The war in the Caucasus was captured in many reports, but also in the book, The Last One sets the Village on Fire (Euromedia 2021).

Klicperová cooperates with a number of the Czech media, primarily with Reflex magazine and the Reporters of Czech Television. She also lectures at the University of Hradec Králové.

In 2020 she was included in the prestigious Women Photograph database, which includes the best photographers from around the world.

More info HERE

ISIS Wives: Queens of the Caliphate / Lenka Klicperova (Czech Republic)

An Iraqi mother and child at the Ain Issa Detention Camp. Like their husbands, most of the women here are jihadists. Nobody knows what to do with them. What will be the future for this mother and child along with thousands of others held in Syrian detention camps?

Website

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

Ain Issa, Syria / 2018

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Ada Trillo

親子の日 Press — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:00:08 +0000

Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, who was born and raised in the bi-national border mega-sprawl of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In her work, she focuses on borders of inclusion and exclusion as they are experienced through people in sex trafficking; climate and violence-related international migration; and long-standing barriers of race and class. Trillo’s work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the recipient of the Female In Focus 2020 best series award and was recently featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She has also been awarded The Me & Eve Grant from the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe and received First Place in Editorial in the Tokyo International Foto Awards. Trillo has exhibited nationally and internationally in New York City, Philadelphia, Luxembourg, England, Italy, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Tear Gassed / Ada Trillo (USA)

After crossing the Guatemalan border, roughly 800 migrants were greeted by Mexican troops. Using tear gas and riot shields, they were forcibly herded onto buses causing many of the women and children to suffer chemical burns and other serious injuries.

Website

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico / 2020

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Emi Nakamura

親子の日 Press — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:50:27 +0000

Oyako Photo Matsuri is a group exhibition on parents and children at FCCJ (Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan).

Warmth / Emi Nakamura (Japan)

The courage in the little monkey’s eyes shows the strength and gentleness it feels in the mother’s arms. This brief moment together is the start to nurturing the next generation.

Website

Jigokudani, Nagano Prefecture, Japan / January 2021

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