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Updated January 1, 2007

A Very Happy New Year to You All!

Wishing you all good health and happiness always.

Thank you for your support in a busy 2006 with two exhibitions and book publishing .
I look forward to seeing, hearing, being with everyone in 2007 whether it be in person,
on the internet or through the ever present spirit net!

Pinhole Debutes on Nikon Japan's Website
A portfolio of 5 of Edo's Healing Landscapes are being featured at Nikon Web Gallery beginning Dec 28, 2006 and will remain at the the top of that page for one month. (After that it will still be there as a back issue.) The gallery features the work of a new photographer each month and this is the first time for them to show pinhole photographs. The page is English and Japanese and includes my comments on each photo. I use Nikon lens cameras, but am happy that they recognize the artistic merit of pinhole photography.
Visit the Nikon Web Gallery and my exhibit here!

Two New Gallery Albums Added!

Two new galleries have been added to the Gallery Section of this site.
"Silhouette Stories" is part of my new work which was shown at Goraku Gallery in Ginza Tokyo in summer 2006. The Diorama 1 series "Fears and Hopes" was created in 2002 but was shown for the first time in Tokyo in my fall show at Roonee 247 Photography gallery.
Click here and select from the left side menu or enter from the "Gallery" menu above on this page.

The most recent Pinhole Workshop in Kamogawa was held October 21-22, 2006
This was a two day overnight workshop. Photos from this workshop have been added to the Workshop Galleries! Click here and select "2006fall" from the left side "Workshop" Menu or enter from the "Gallery" menu above on this page.

See the Workshop Page for more details about Edo Photos Workshops.

Exhibition by Edward Levinson was held Sept 19- Oct 1 2006 at Roonee 247 Photography in Yotsuya Tokyo.

Ｐlease see the exhibition page for more details

Edo's Pinhole Photos in "Waraku" Magazine

Two of Edward's Pinhole Photographs from the series Sacred Japan and included in his new book were published in the October issue of Waraku magazine. Waraku is very traditonal"Japanesque" kind of publication. In the October issue they did a special section on Kyoto which included black and white photographs by four foreigners taken in Kyoto. These four included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Bischof, Rene Burri, (all of Magnum Photos) and Edward Levinson! Edward's photos included a Q+A interview about his photos and "memories of Kyoto", his first home in Japan. The magazine is in Japanese and is only available by subscription and a few select stores whch can be fouund on the publishers JAPANESE website. http://www.waraku.shogakukan.co.jp
(The publshing of Edo's photos and interview was done with the cooperation of Sebun Photo).

Announcing "Still" Hot off the Press!

A Book of Edward Levinson's Pinhole Photographs
was published June 15, 2006
Title:
"Timescapes Japan - A Pinhole Journey" 　

Please see the book page for details and ordering!
An interview about the book with Gregg Kemp at Pinhole Visions has been put on line.
Follow this link to read the interivew and get some insights into Edo's photo process.

[Introduction to the interview by Gregg Kemp, Jul 14, 2006]

"One of the first thoughts I had while viewing and reading Edward Levinson's new book "Timescapes Japan - A Pinhole Journey", was how much my own photography has been influenced by him. The influence isn't so much in the images themselves as it is in Ed's approach to pinhole photography. Whether it is the influence of Japanese culture or perhaps Ed's personal nature, his approach to his work is thoughtful and meditative. And his photographs of the last several years reflect those qualities of his style. This approach is also apparent in his sparse, but elequent writing that accompanies the book. This book is a collection of images you will want to return to often."

Edward Levinson Exhibition of New Work and Book Publishing Show was held
June 19 - July 8th 2006

An new student workshop gallery for Spring 2006 has been added to the gallery section of this site.

The spring workshop in Kamogawa was held April 29-30 2006 in conjunction with Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (see below) . The workshop was open to beginners and advanced people. It was for two days and one night. See the workshop page for more info.

This year's WPPD was held on April 30. On this day people around thew world take pinhole photographs and post them on an online international Pinhole Day Exhibition. Visit the multilingual WPPD site at http://www.pinholeday.org. As of May 9th 9am JST, 1212 have submitted there photos to the site, with 75 entries from Japan. My workshop group will be adding their photos little by little.

An article about Pinhole Day was published in the Daily Yomiuri Newspaper in Japan on April 27. Edo was interviewed in the article and two of his pinhole photos were used to illustrate the article. You can see the text at this link http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20060427TDY18004.htm