[finished] I do - I do what I do because I only have 2 hands.
by AK Kimoto / Cartoon(Panotphorn Changlek) Visual Collaboration and Reinterpretating the Badakhshan, Afghanistan Series:
Date: May 1st to 12th
Opening reception: 6pm, Friday May 7th (*Auction of exhibited works is planned on the opening day. Part of the proceeds goes to the family who AK Kimoto photographed)
The digital flier is available from http://bit.ly/IDO-FLIER
YOUR RSVP ON FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/i-do-ak-toon
This collaboration is a celebration of the combined talents of two people who were as close as individuals could be. We lost AK Kimoto suddenly at the end of March. I say “we” because he touched so many people’s lives in his brief time in this world and he represented so much promise to the photography world.
The loss to friends and the photography world compare little to the loss to his family and his partner in life, and painter, Cartoon(Panotphorn Changlek). Cartoon has selected photographs of AK’s and created something entirely new in her powerful, bold and vivid paintings. When two people come together, they inevitably witness the world in a different way but their vision can complement and almost exist simultaneously as matter and anti-matter, in balance and free from friction or conflict. They can stand on their own and yet feed off the energy taken from the other, given back to the other. Cartoon’s work takes AK’s vision and filters it through a different cultural context and different wave length while leaving from exactly the same point of departure.
It makes one wonder what could have been and how this seed could have flourished. Still, this project speaks louder than anyone of us ever could.
http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/photo-essay/in-memory-of-a-k-kimoto/
http://bit.ly/i-was-there-ak
Date: May 1st to 12th
Opening reception: 6pm, Friday May 7th (*Auction of exhibited works is planned on the opening day. Part of the proceeds goes to the family who AK Kimoto photographed)
Venue: At Hof art gallery
http://www.hof-art.net/eng/file/contact.php
More information:
Yumi Goto g.youme@gmail.com 081 206 9973
Kosuke Okahara kosukeokahara@gmail.com
Cartoon 087 055 9407 (English and Thai)
Hof Art gallery hofartinfo@gmail.com 089 926 2196