I am pleased to announce that American photographer Mark Klett will be giving an artist talk at the Ueno campus of Tokyo University of the Arts on January 19 from 18:30 to 20:00.

Mark Klett is a photographer interested in the intersection of places, history and time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally, and is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of nineteen books including Seeing Time, Forty Years of Photographs (University of Texas Press 2020). Klett is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University.

A sample of his work can be viewed online: https://www.markklett.com/ Notable works include the Rephotographic Survey Project with JoAnn Verburg and Ellen Manchester, Drowned River with Byron Wolfe and Rebecca Solnit, and Half Life of History with William L. Fox.

The event is organized by the Center of Photography at Tokyo University of the Arts in collaboration with University of Tsukuba and is open to non-students. The talk will be in English with Japanese consecutive translation.

Please note that there is pre-registration: https://tinyurl.com/2fkeynkm

All are welcome

Asst. Prof. Gary McLeod (Dr.)

Institute of Art and Design

University of Tsukuba