THE DAIDO MORIYAMA CYCLE1 // Hokkaido-Northern // Sept 13 - Nov 62 // Paris // Nov 10 - Nov 223 // Silkscreens // Nov 10 - Jan 12Opening reception Saturday November 10th from 6 pm to 9 pmVernissage le samedi 10 novembre de 18h00 à 21h00Polka Galerie is pleased to announce a cycle of three exhibitions (September 2012 - January 2013) dedicated to Daido Moriyama's oeuvres. Our ambition is to apprehend multiple aspects of his work : hi…

THE DAIDO MORIYAMA CYCLE1 // Hokkaido-Northern // Sept 13 - Nov 62 // Paris // Nov 10 - Nov 223 // Silkscreens // Nov 10 - Jan 12Opening reception Saturday November 10th from 6 pm to 9 pmVernissage le samedi 10 novembre de 18h00 à 21h00Polka Galerie is pleased to announce a cycle of three exhibitions (September 2012 - January 2013) dedicated to Daido Moriyama's oeuvres. Our ambition is to apprehend multiple aspects of his work : hi…

ENGDaido Moriyama Hokkaido-Northern « Hokkaido - Northern » is the largest project ever undertaken by Daido Moriyama (born in 1938, Ikeda, Osaka), leading figure of Japanese photography.In the aftermath of World War II, Japan was a wounded nation. The havoc wreaked by the war still prohibited any kind of travel across the country. While reading school books and magazines, young Moriyama came across the names of th…

“Photographs are fossils of light and memory, and photographs are the history of memory” (Daido Moriyama, “The Myth of Light” excerpt from his memoir “Memories of a Dog”, 2004). “Memories of Light” unearths the journey of a wanderer whose only guides while on the road have been, for over half a century, his memories and souvenirs. Born in 1938 in Osaka, Daido Moriyama lived through the Second World War, Japan’s defeat, the military occupation…