The “Department of Photography Special” is an event where all students enrolled in the Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts at Tokyo Polytechnic University are eligible to receive accolades for their outstanding achievements based on work completed during the current academic year.
Facing the on-going challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic again this year, we continued our students’ education by shifting all of our lectures to online classes and by offering shortened on-campus seminars to accommodate the students on a rotating schedule. In light of the state of emergency and the request for self-isolation, students had to go through social situations where they found themselves unable to produce the work as they intended. Nevertheless, our students would not give in to such a headwind and devoted themselves to their studies and creative endeavors while complying with society’s rules. The 40 nominated students adhered to all of the precautions for infection control at the campus exhibition and presented their works and concepts in an on-demand format.
We invited the distinguished photographers, Taishi Hirokawa, Ryo Ohwada and Ayano Kageyama, to judge this year’s exhibition. This year’s judges, consisting of the previously mentioned photographers and the teaching staff of the Department of Photography, examined the exhibited works on campus during their allotted time slot. We devised a special scheme to hold the event on Saturday, February 5th, through a combination of online and offline formats, so that the judges could interactively communicate with the nominated students, give them reviews, and select each of award winners including the Grand Prix winner. The teaching staff participated from the campus exhibition area while the invited judges and students were able to have remote access to the process from either their homes or offices.
This exhibition highlights the work of all the award winners and additionally, a slideshow runs concurrently that presents all the exhibited works in the “Department of Photography Special 2022,” and all of the graduation projects completed during the current academic year.
Award Winners from the “Department of Photography Special 2022”
The “Department of Photography Special” is an event where all students enrolled in the Department of Photography, Faculty of Arts at Tokyo Polytechnic University are eligible to receive accolades for their outstanding achievements based on work completed during the current academic year.
Facing the on-going challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic again this year, we continued our students’ education by shifting all of our lectures to online classes and by offering shortened on-campus seminars to accommodate the students on a rotating schedule. In light of the state of emergency and the request for self-isolation, students had to go through social situations where they found themselves unable to produce the work as they intended. Nevertheless, our students would not give in to such a headwind and devoted themselves to their studies and creative endeavors while complying with society’s rules. The 40 nominated students adhered to all of the precautions for infection control at the campus exhibition and presented their works and concepts in an on-demand format.
We invited the distinguished photographers, Taishi Hirokawa, Ryo Ohwada and Ayano Kageyama, to judge this year’s exhibition. This year’s judges, consisting of the previously mentioned photographers and the teaching staff of the Department of Photography, examined the exhibited works on campus during their allotted time slot. We devised a special scheme to hold the event on Saturday, February 5th, through a combination of online and offline formats, so that the judges could interactively communicate with the nominated students, give them reviews, and select each of award winners including the Grand Prix winner. The teaching staff participated from the campus exhibition area while the invited judges and students were able to have remote access to the process from either their homes or offices.
This exhibition highlights the work of all the award winners and additionally, a slideshow runs concurrently that presents all the exhibited works in the “Department of Photography Special 2022,” and all of the graduation projects completed during the current academic year.