Taka Kawachi
Taka Kawachi has extensice international experience, having graduated from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, to then working in New York City as a book editor and curator for 15 years, including Richard Prince, Nan Goldin and Patti Smith exhibition and book.
Returning to Japan in 2011, he started to write essays on art and photography. In 2016, Kawachi published his first book "Art no Iriguchi (Entrance to the Arts, on American Art)" followed by his second publication on European Art in the same year. In 2019 and 2020, he published his third and fourth book "The Artists 1 & 2". These publications illustrate his experiences of art, photography design and architecture, and offers readers an opportunity to engage with the history and subjects of both regions from his unique point of view.
He is currently the Director of the Overseas Division of Kyoto's Benrido, working to disseminate the classic and rare photographic proccess of Collotype, and produced produced portfolios of Saul Leiter, Rinko Kawauchi, Masao Yamamoto, Robert Doisneau and J.H. Lartigue.
