Free, with general admission

Photo historian Carrie Cushman leads this tour, highlighting a range of works and referring to key moments in Japan's photography and its broader histories. 

Carrie Cushman is a specialist in postwar and contemporary art and photography from Japan. She contributed the essay The Japanese Women Who Transformed Photography to the exhibition catalogue I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. She also worked with Kelly Midori Mccormick to produce the timelines in the exhibition. Cushman has recently become Director of the Bates College Museum of Art. She has built a career centred on curatorial innovation, scholarly research, and museum leadership. 

This event is programmed in connect to the exhibition I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers 1950s to now, curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko and Pauline Vermare. The exhibition was organised by Aperture in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles with support from Kering | Women In Motion, Ishibashi Foundation, Anne Levy Charitable Trust,1970 Japan World's Exposition Memorial Fund and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Additional curatorial collaboration for the exhibition in London, with Taous Dahmani, The Photographers’ Gallery.

This event is programmed in connection to the exhibition I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers 1950s to now, curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko and Pauline Vermare. The exhibition was organised by Aperture in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles with support from Kering | Women In Motion, Ishibashi Foundation, Anne Levy Charitable Trust,1970 Japan World's Exposition Memorial Fund and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Additional curatorial collaboration for the exhibition in London, with Taous Dahmani, The Photographers’ Gallery.