What is DAYS international photojournalism festival 2009?

We have been delivering the reality of the world which major media does not report, on the role of "Eyes of the watch" as radical journalism.
There are still many wars, disputes, human-right violations, disruption of nature, etc., today that we must bring down to the world.
"Yokohama international photojournalism festival" of DAYS JAPAN, 5th in the series is held in Yokohama centering on photograph exhibition "Living on the earth" and the Hiraga Ryuichi photograph exhibition. Modeling the ペルピニヤン　international photo festival at France, it aims “an event in which not only an ordinary event but an event that gathers every person who aims to become a photographer from Japan” with various events scheduled. We are looking forward to seeing you in "Yokohama international photojournalism festival", where photo journalists in front line deliver the “truth” through photos.

What is the DAYS JAPAN international photojournalism Grand Prize?

Since 2005, Photograph prize "DAYS international photojournalism Grand Prize" has been held by DAYS JAPAN every year. A number of prize winners have won the ピュリッツァ prize. Beside Hiraga Ryuichi(Chief Editor of this magazine), 江成常夫(photographer), Keisuke Kumakiri(photo journalist), Kayoko Ikeda(translator) Yoshino Oishi(photo journalist) レネ・Ｃ・バイヤー(photo journalist, DAYS international photojournalism grand prize, ピュリッツァ prize Winner) come as the photograph prize judges. Moreover, Philip John Griffith, Tetsuya Tsukushi who died last year and magnum former chairman also is involved as the final judges. It was decided that movie director Yoji Yamada, 姜尚中(professor of The University of Tokyo), and Tokiko Kato (singer) will participate as the final judges next year.
In addition, in 2007, "Yokohama international photojournalism festival" was held in Ichigo-kan of the Akarenga Storage and the Kaikou Memorial Museum. Photograph exhibition, workshop, music event, symposium and slide lecture were executed, and almost 7000 people had participated in the festival. Taking the opportunity of the 5th anniversary of DAYS JAPAN and the 150th anniversary of port opening, we have decided to hold the event again this year.

- Sponsor
DAYS JAPAN

- Backup
The 150th anniversary of Yokohama City port　opening / creative city business headquarters / Photographic Society of Japan / Japan Professional Photographers Society / Mainichi Shimbun / Asahi Shimbun / the Yomiuri Shimbun / Kiyosato photo art museum / Domon fist memorial / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Kid Eye Rack Art Hall / Waseda University - Cooperation S.A.L of Keio University The Horiuchi Color Yamanote Photo factory

- Support
Kiyosato photo art museum
Nikon imaging Japan
Canon Marketing Japan
Konica Minolta Holdings
Fuji Film
Kaga high-tech Kodak business headquarters
アウレオ
Catalog House Sigma
Ryuichi Hiraga nonnuclear and peaceful photograph exhibition committee
Peace Boat
Yamada Apiculture Place
Super-Planning
Photography Section of Department of Art at Nihon University

DAYS JAPAN 翻訳文


What is DAYS JAPAN?

■We have launched this magazine because…
Since 9.11, a distrust of the conventional media has been spreading. On too many occasions, critical information failed to reach us. There were even times when the information broadcast by the media urged us to choose the path to war. As a result, our generation is rushing headlong in a dangerous direction. Although there are photojournalists who take excellent photographs, there aren’t enough media to publish them. We think it is important to protect our ability to read about the age we are in. That is why DAYS JAPAN was born, amidst this crisis of international mass media and journalism.


DAYS JAPAN is a journal that will,
■Publish the documentary photos that best support the campaign to protect human life and the natural environment
■Carry out investigative reporting
■Tackle topics such as discrimination, oppression, starvation and crimes by men against women
■Center on photojournalism
■Distribute world-class distinguished documentary photographs

We named this magazine “DAYS JAPAN” after the magazine that had been published once by Kodansha and had been stopped publication.
We, those who had been involved in the publication of that magazine, have decided to publish the new magazine to revive the former.

■the intention of publishing DAYS JAPAN
　Now, we are in the situation that it is difficult for us to choose which information to trust, though there is plenty of information. At every war such as those in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, we all have felt that any information carries some bias and our distrust of the conventional media has been spreading. For instance, articles that conduct war often appear before wars. On the other hand, those that discourage war are hidden from the high places of editorial department and as a result may not been seen by the general public. Even letters from the viewers are carefully checked and often removed.

In the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, there are responsible photojournalists who report the truth. As a matter of fact, however, we did not see their photographs in Japan because Japanese media are reluctant to carry them.

We keenly realized that despite there are photojournalists who take excellent photographs, there are not enough media to publish them.

Now, Japanese photojournalism is in a critical situation. Losing ambitious photojournalists means that it is hard for us to see if the world is taking the right course. That means we lose the eyes to read the times.

These days, although things such as transition of newspaper to the Internet and TV apart are pointed out, the truth often remain hidden. What should we report? What should we know? We aim to meet your view with DAYS JAPAN.

The editor in chief of DAYS JAPAN Ryuichi HIROKAWA


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★S.A.L. Photo Exhibition"Smile Photo〜We are Photograher〜"

Hello, we are S.A.L.-Keio University student group aim at enlightening the international issues like poverty, education or whatever-.

We inform you of our photo exhibition titled "Smile Photo We're Photograher"!

This program is going to be held from September 30th to October 11th, as one of the contents of "DAYS Yokohama international photojournalism festival 2009".

As of this ivent, check the Web site below.

http://photofestival2009e.seesaa.net/


We've been carrying out photo program with the children of Cambodia and Japan. We call this project "Focus on myself". At this project, we lend cameras to children of both countries and have them take photos under the theme of
"What is your precious thing?"
"What are the things you don't like in your daily life?"
"Introduce your country through your photo."

Through this project, we want get know changes of their values in it.

Do you want to know, through photos taken by them, how differ children capturing the world around them?

The answer is sure to be in "Smile Photo"!!