Ikuo Nakamura Photographic Exhibition

27,000 HOURS UNDER THE SEA!

Aug. 5—Sep. 18, 2006

• Aug. 5—Sep. 18, 2006
• Closed Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
• Admission：Adults ￥800／College Students ￥700／High School and Junior School Students, Over 65 ￥600

Ikuo Nakamura has dedicated himself to photographing the seas of the world, chronicling beautiful seascapes and brief dramas in the lives of the creatures who inhabit them. In 27,000 Hours Under the Sea, we are proud to present not only a carefully selected retrospective of a four-decade body of work by Japan’s premier underwater photographer but also his most recent images: in all, a magnificent set of 219 photographs of the sea and the life within it.
Earth is aptly called the watery planet, for seas cover seventy percent of its surface. Those vast oceans, the cradle of life on earth, have also been the setting for amazing evolutionary change since the first life emerged within them over 3.8 billion years ago. Nakamura, fascinated by the seas’ unfathomable beauty and mystery, has captured the glow of the creatures who make the oceans their home, shooting both in familiar locations such as Tokyo Bay and in coral reefs around the world.
27,000 Hours Under the Sea is a not-to-be-missed opportunity not only to glimpse the breadth and depth of Ikuo Nakamura’s photographic world but also to re-encounter the “mother ocean” environment without which life on earth as we know it could not exist and re-affirm its significance.

 

The clown anemone fish puffs at its eggs to promote their growth, Indonesia, September 1992
Soft coral, El Nido, Philippines, October 1982