Online newspaper based in Matera
EcocNews is registered at the Court of Matera in the press register n. 2/2021
Editor in chief: Mariateresa Cascino. Founder and editorial director: Serafino Paternoster
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This project consists in inviting to Japan photographers who are working in Europe to record for posterity images of the various prefectures of Japan on the theme of contemporary Japanese people and how they live their lives. They hope that this collection will prove an opportunity for Japanese to reacquaint themselves with aspects of their daily lives that they have tended to overlook and for Europeans to deepen their understanding of Japan and become more familiar with the distant presence of their distant Far Eastern country.
The photographs shot in various locations around Japan are collected the following year in the “European Eyes on Japan” publications and in exhibitions featured in cities throughout Japan and Europe. Works that have completed the exhibition circuit are then donated to their prefectures of origin as part of the cultural heritage of their later generations.
The vol. 23 exhibition is now being held at the European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022 (Serbia). Serbian photographer Andrea Palasti, who photographed Osaka this summer, chose pyrethrum, an ingredient of mosquito coils imported from the Kingdom of Dalmatia to Japan at the end of the 19th century! Enjoy her meticulous research and unique works until Nov. 20!
©Andrea Palašti, The Killer Chrysanthemum, exhibition at Fabrika, Local 2/Creative District, Novi Sad, Serbia. 9 - 20 November, 2022.
The exhibition was made possible through the European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022 and the Photography Project ‘European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol.23’ funded by the EU Japan Fest Japan Committee (Tokyo).