I was asked this week if I wanted to add some of my photos to the Hachimantai Art and Culture Festival. My photos would be displayed in the Ashiro town gym for a about three days to a week. I didn’t see how this could be a bad thing, so I went home, chose my 10 best “Hachimantai” pictures, put them on CD and had them printed.
The following day I went back to pick them up and realized they were 800 yen (around eight dollars) each. That came to around 8400 yen. Ouch! Then the store owner asks me if I’d like some frames for them. I mean, how can you display a photo at an exhibit without frames? So I go and buy ten frames. This costs me 750 yen a frame. Quite an investment indeed.
There are two ways I am going to rationalize this purchase. The first is that, as an ALT, it is my job to internationalize and show what foreigners are capable of. What better way to do this, then by visually demonstrating this. My second reason is to get my photos out in the open. I feel that if people see my work, they might be interested in seeing more.
I hope I’m right.
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