Discover the exclusive conversation between Marc Feustel, Yasufumi Nakamori, Damarice Amao and Julie Jones.
Photography as a Collective Practice:
The Case of the All–Japan Students’ Photo Association
About
This discussion will consider the case of the All–Japan Students Photo Association (AJSPA), a nationwide network of student photographers, and their project on Hiroshima (1968–1971).
The conversation will place the AJSPA’s activities in a global and historical context, exploring how photography can become a collective act and highlighting questions of authorship and anonymity, the political and the artistic, and narratives and counter-narratives.
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Toshihiko Suto, Streetcar and Girl (Kamiya-chō), 1969 — Courtesy of the artist & MEM, Tokyo
With Yasufumi Nakamori
Yasufumi Nakamori, PhD is a New York City-based independent curator and writer.
He was the Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) at Tate from 2018 to 2023, and served as the Director of Asia Society Museum in New York City until this spring. The exhibitions he led to curate include Zanele Muholi (Tate Modern, 2020 -) and The 80s: Photographing Britain (Tate Britain, 2024 - 2025). As a noted scholar in Japanese art and photography, he curated exhibitions, including For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 1968 - 1979 (MFA Houston 2015 - 2016) and edited books including Eikoh Hosoe (MACK 2021) and Traces: Miyako Ishiuchi (with Lena Fritsch, Thames & Hudson 2026).
Julie Jones
PhD in art history, Julie Jones is a curator in the Photography Department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris. She has curated numerous exhibitions such as Barbara Crane, Hannah Villiger, Corps à Corps, Moï Ver, Shunk-Kender, and Photographisme: Ifert, Klein, Zamecznik.
Damarice Amao
Damarice Amao holds a PhD in art history and is a curator at the photography collection department of the MNAM–Centre Pompidou. Her expertise focuses on modern French and European photography of the interwar period, examined in relation to political and social issues.
She curated Décadrage colonial. Anticolonialism, Surrealism, Modern Photography (2022) and co-curated Photography: A Weapon of Class (2018) as well as Dora Maar (2019).
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© Marguerite Bornhauser
Program - Paris Photo 2025
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