Young photographer Ume Kayo's first solo museum exhibition will be held at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from April 13th. The exhibition boldly reconfigures her snapshot series, "Shutter Chance," which is the foundation of her practice, and her "Boys" and "Grandpa" series, which revolve around relationships with close others, incorporating previously unpublished works. Her early "Female Junior High School Students" series will also be exhibited for the first time in 10 years. Additionally, a series related to her latest photo book will be added. Born in 1981, Ume Kayo won consecutive Canon New Cosmos of Photography Honorable Mention awards in 2000 for "Boys" and 2001 for "Female Junior High School Students." Her first photo book, "Umeme," published in 2006, won the 32nd Kimura Ihei Photography Award. "From the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night, everything is within the realm of pressing the shutter," she says, and using her natural communication skills, exquisite sense of distance, and high dynamic vision to continue capturing the various scenes hidden in everyday life from her own unique perspective.


[Event Information]
Ume Kayo Exhibition
Venue: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Address: 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Dates: April 13th to June 23rd, 2013
Hours: 11:00 to 19:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Closed: Mondays (if a public holiday falls on a Monday, the following Tuesday will be closed, except for April 30th, when the closing date is April 30th)
Admission: Adults 1,000 yen, University and High School Students 800 yen, Middle and Elementary School Students 600 yen