all packed up and somewhere to go
That brown package holds all 30 freshly matted prints for my show. Tomorrow after work I’ll take the prints and mats to the gallery in Shinjuku, and then I’ll take the 38,ooo yen that I owe for everything to the shop where I ordered the mats. Just like I did for my 2005 show, I got my mats done at Roonee. Roonee is a small gallery run by a young couple located in Yotsuya near Shinjuku. In addition to having a site for photographers to show work, they also help support the Photo gallery scene here in Tokyo with their photographic exhibiton / archival supply shop.
Next to the package behind my camera (for scale) are 120 6×7 contact sheets stacked up. I can’t believe it has taken me this long to make contact sheets again. They are a blast to look at and I imagine that I’ll save on paper in the long run by knowing well what to print, instead of going off the educated guess that a looking at a negative file with a light box gives. Sometimes a negative looks better than a print, and the result is a wasted sheet of paper.
