On August 13th the photographer Junko Takahashi gave a talk at the opening of her solo exhibition Lost World.  During the talk, special guest Mariko Takeuchi and the artist held a discussion revolving around Takahashi’s work and introduced projects by Japanese photographers working in the affected areas of the March earthquake that struck eastern Japan.
First, Takahashi explained the process that led to the creation of the works on exhibit.  The site where she shot the initial photographs is located on the outskirts of Beijing, a village being demolished to make way for re-development.  The works from Lost World are the result of digitally layering a number of those photographs.  Exhibited alongside her works of portraiture, two different methods within photography emerge.
Takeuchi introduced Takahashi’s earlier work and pointed out that in her work, “the image describes an occurrence at a certain location, however that occurrence could happen in any location,” a feature that “combines individual and universal perspectives."  For the second half of the talk, Takeuchi introduced the current activities of Japanese photographers after the earthquake in eastern Japan: “A Beacon of Rebirth Poster Project,” “Save the Photographs Project,” “YAHOO! Operation Japanese Photography Preservation,” “ ON THE MOVE Slideshow” and others.