Ken Kitano
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2010.

Exhibition catalogue for Japanese photographer Ken Kitano’s our face project at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre which opened 3 July, 2010. “At first glance these our face works might look like single individuals, but each is a composite image of a group layered into one. The production process is long and involved – and completely analog – burning negatives one by one onto silver halide printing paper at ultra-low exposures, over and over again. The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre on the outskirts of Beijing places great value on large-format silve rhalide photgraphs and is one of the very few facilities in the world equipped to handle production. In April 2009, Centre Directors RongRong and inri graciously informed me of their willingness to help me with the project, so from May 2010 I began a three-month residency to produce this our face series.” (from introduction) This copy signed by Kitano in silver marker and with a small drawing by the photographer.