Edward Levinson CV  - updated Nov, 2009
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Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Nationality: U.S.A.. Living in Japan since 1979.
Profession: Photographer/Writer
Lectures and presents workshops on Pinhole Photography.
Member of Pinhole Resource, San Lorenzo, New Mexico.
Member The Photographic Society of Japan. (PSJ)
Member Japan Pinhole Photographic Society. (JPPS)
Member Pinhole Photographic Art Society. Japan (PPAS)
http://www.edophoto.com
email:edo@edophoto.com

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Education: Studied Photography at Virginia Commonwealth University. Printing Workshop with John Sexton. Pinhole Workshop with Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Santa Fe. Newport University, B.A. Human Behavior.
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Solo Exhibitions:

2009 "Garden on the Hilltop", Yaesu Book Center Gallery, Tokyo
2009 "Pinhole Sampler", Itabashi Science Museum, Tokyo
2008, "Landscapes" and "Silouette Stories", Municipal Museum, Mombetsu Hokkaido Japan
2008 " Healing Landscapes", Gallery Schiele, Chikura Japan
2007, "Silouette Stories", Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
2007, "Edo San's Pinhole Exhibition"  Nadar/Shibuya, Tokyo
2006 "Heartgraphy", Roonee 247 Photography, Yotsuya Tokyo
2006,  "Silouette Stories",  Goraku Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
2005, "Timescapes", Nadar/Shibuya, Tokyo
2005, "Essence Of Being" Gallery Haneusagi, Kyoto
2004, “Healing Landscapes” Gallery Hiroba, Tokyo
2004, “Landscapes of the Heart”, Takashimaya Roof Gallery Tokyo
2004, “Watching and Waiting”, Goraku Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
2002, "Shadows Talk", Goraku Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
2001, "Healing Landscapes", Furushima Gallery, Chiba, Japan
2001, "Suiten Mugen - Infinite Water", Gallery Mayu, Tokyo
2001, "Camera Obscura", Hungarian Museum Of Photography,
kecskemet, Hungary
2000, "Pinhole Photographs of Japan" Manggha Center for Japanese
Art and Technology, National Museum Krakow, Poland
2000, "Essence Of Being", Goraku Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
1999, "As Time Goes By", Tokyo Photographic Culture Center, Stage
1999, "Europe Deja vu", Prinz the gallery, Kyoto
1998, "Pinhole Photographs", Metal Museum, Chiba, Japan
1998, "Cityscapes", Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
1998, "Healing Landscapes", Yufuin Museum of Art, Oita Pref. Kyushu
1998, "Cityscapes", Egg Gallery, Tokyo
1998, "Healing Landscapes and Sacred Japan", Sunshine City, Tokyo
1998, "Healing Landscapes", Cosmo Gallery, Osaka
1997, "Healing Landscapes", Furushima Gallery, Chiba, Japan
1996, "Sacred Japan - Myth or Reality?", Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
1996, "Healing Landscapes", Prinz the gallery, Kyoto
1996, "Healing Landscapes", Egg Gallery, Tokyo
1995, "Healing Landscapes", Daimaru Dept. Store, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions: 

2009 "Everlasting Memory" Three person show, Art Point Gallery, Ginza Tokyo
2009  "Senza Lenti" Invitational Group Show celebrating Worldwide Pinhole Day, Rovereto, Italy (also shown in Florence Italy at ACSAF – Archivio Contemporaneo Stampa d’Arte Fotografica)
2009 "Inteface" Invitational Pinhole Artist Group Show, Kyoto
2008-2009  "Ever Present Past"Three person show, New Saxony Gallery, Chemnitz Germany
2008 "Healing Landscapes" in two person show. Ichihara Musuem of Sculpture, Chiba Japan
2007, "Pinhole Planet", International Invitational Group show, Kyoto
2007    International  "Flying Pinhole" project, Doubs France
2007  " Timeless Perspectives", 2 man show, White Canvas Gallery, Richmond VA USA
2005 “Circles of Confusion” Juried Group Show, DeSantos Gallery , Houston, Texas USA
2004 “Slow Visions”, Invitational Pinhole Photography Show, Norway
2003-4 "Taken in Hungary, Specialties of Hungarian Photography - A
Country Mirrored by Foreign Photographers" Hungarian Museum of Photography
Kescemet Hungary
2003, "Marubi 2003" National Gallery Of Arts Bulevardi Tirana, Albania
Mirabai, Invitational Pinhole Show
2003, "Pure Light - Southern Pinhole Photography", Southeast Center for Contemporary Art
Winston-Salem North Carolina USA
2000, "Those Who Came, A View of Hungary Through the Lenses of Foreign
Photographers", Oct., Hungarian Museum Of Photography, kecskemet, Hungary
2000, "Stenotograhie", Bibliotheque municipale de Lille, France
2000, "Cityscapes", two person show , Cudahy’s Gallery Richmond, Virginia
1999, "Lightbox", Pinhole Invitational Show, LBCC, Albany, Oregon
1996, "20 Artists from 8 Countries", Int. Group Exhibition, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
1995, "Awakening the Spirit", Felissimo Art Space, New York City.
1995, "Camera Concepts", Cudahy's Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. USA
1995, "Sound Of the Earth", two man exhibition, Gallery Mayu, Tokyo.

Fine Art Photo Book and Essays Publications:

2006, "Timescapes Japan", Nippon Camera-Sha
2007,  "Edo's Lessons in Pinhole Photography - Photography for Slow Life" Iwanami Publishers

Commissioned Book Publications (not pinhole):

2009 "The Garden on the Hilltop - A Flower Almanac" , Tankosha, Kyoto
2006, “Living the Organic Life, part 2”, Bunka Publishing Co.
2004, “Mother Earth Natural Cooking”, Toyo Shorin
2003, “Iki, iki Cooking” (Vegetarian Cookbook), NHK Publishing Co.
2000, “Photo Book of Seasonal Wild Flowers”, Bunka Publishing Co.
1994, “Living the Organic Life”, Shibata Shoten
1994, “Decorating with Wild Flowers”, Ie No Hikari Kyokai
1994, “First Nature with Kids: Growing Vegetables for Beginners”, Iwanami Shoten
1991, “Mother Earth Kitchen”, Shibata Shoten

Other Publications (Photographs, and Interviews):

2009 Ebisu Style Magazine Summer issue, "Teaching interview"

2008, 8 Pages of color lens photographs feautred in Nippon Camera Magazine May issue

2007, Black and White Magazine, Issue 51, Book review of Timescapes Japan
2006 Nippon Camera, 8 pages, Fears and Hopes diorama series
2004 , Monthly Photo column in Nippon Camera
2004, Jan. Two Pages in Nippon Camera, Self Portrait Special
2003, Cover of the Japanese translation of the book "Love And Courage", by Hugh Prather.
Nine more photos are used inside the book and on the back cover.
2003, August, Wingspan inflight magazine All Nippon Airways, three pages in “Gallery”
2002, July. Two pages in Nippon Camera, Pinhole Special
2000, July, "Haha no Tomo", (Japanese parenting magazine) 9 page pinhole essay
2000, July, "Nippon Camera" (Japanese photo magazine) 6 page pinhole portfolio
2000, June, Richmond Times Dispatch, interview
2000, March, "Asahi Camera" (Japanese photo magazine) 5 page pinhole portfolio
1999, Nov., "Photo", (Japanese graphic magazine) pinhole photo essay/interview
1999, Miyazawa Kenji, The Vegetarian, Shobunsha (book cover photo + 8 B+W images)
1999, August, Daily Yomiuri Newspaper, photos and interview
1999, July, "Tide" (black and white photo magazine) 13 page pinhole photo portfolio
1999, March, "Pacific Friend", graphic magazine, 5 page pinhole photo essay
1998 April, "Nippon Camera", pinhole photo portfolio
1998 April, "Asahi Camera", Interview
1998, March, Japan Times Newspaper, interview
1997, "Nature Land" Magazine, Pinhole Cover Photo Series, six issues
1997-1998, "Nikkei 0-1" computer magazine, pinhole photo series, five issues
1997, Kyoto Journal No. 34, Cover and back, pinhole photo images
1997, June, "Pacific Friend", graphic magazine, 5 page pinhole photo essay
1997, Ima Shizen wo Ikiru, Iwanami Shoten (book cover photo and 8 B+W images)
1997, Midori No Kurashi ni Iyasarete, Daiwa Shobo (cover photo, + 7 B+W images)
1996, April, "Asahi Camera", Interview
1995- 97, "Yuobika" Magazine, Makino Publ., 15 month Pinhole Photo essay series,
1994-1995, "Country Living" Magazine, Takarajimasha, Cover Photo series
1986, Nature Meditations, Tama Publishing Co.

Pinhole Workshops and lectures taught at:
Sunshine City/ GIP Tokyo
Tokyo Photographic Culture Center
Metal Art Museum, Chiba, Japan
International Children’s Museum, Shimane, Japan
Mai Mano House of Photography, Budapest Hungary, (Lecture)
Yufuin Museum of Art, Kyushu, Japan
Prinz the gallery, Kyoto
Ississ Gallery, Kyoto
Takashimaya Department Store, Fukutamagawa, Tokyo
Kyoto Interational School
Itabashi Sciene Museum
Nippon Photography Institute - guest teacher lecture

Sponsorship and Cooperation:
Nippon Polaroid
Agfa Japan
Epson Sales Japan
PCM Takeo (Japanese paper manufacturer)
Fuji Film

Television and Radio (Interviews and photographs):

2007, NHK-Chiba , News Interview FM Radio Talk show
2007, NHK, Countrywide News Interview AM Radio Talk show
2007, NHK, News Interview TV
2004, Hayama Beach FM, Interview
2003, Yokohama Bay FM, Interview
2000, Fuji TV, Marco Polo"s Children
1999, NHK, Kono Subarashiki mono tachi (These Wonderful Things)
1999, NHK, Chisana Tabi (Local Journey)
1999, Chiba TV, Nanohana Bito (Celebrity profile)
1998, TV Tokyo, News interview
1998, NHK, News Interview
1997, NHK, Taiyo no Shokutaku, (Lifestyle and career profile)
1998, Tokyo Bay Wave FM radio, interview

Gallery Representation (non-exclusive):
Office Goraku Gallery, Tokyo
White Canvas Gallery, Richmond, VA USA www.whitecanvasgallery.com

Awards:
PX3 2007, First Place Award for Category Book/other “Timescapes Japan”

Collections:
Graham Nash/Nash Editions
Manggha Center for Japanese Art & Technology National Museum, Krakow Poland
Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary
The Mariners Museum, Newport News Virginia
Collection of Julia J. Norell,
Gallery Mayu, Kyushu Japan, Goraku Gallery, Tokyo Pinhole Resource, New Mexico,
Chesapeake Capital Corporation, Virginia Various private collections