Admission fee free

This is a special exhibition where Chikako Furuya, a “marine cameraman,” who has dived into Uminchu (Uminchu) fishing grounds since the 1990s and has captured her images on camera, becomes a mother and sends out important messages learned from amemuses all over the country along with photographs.

●Photo Exhibition Commemorative Lectures & Talk Sessions
Look at the world of “Satoumi” through Okinawan sailors and divas from all over the country.
Date: 2/17 (Sat) 13:30 (admission free, reservation required)
Speakers: Chikako Furuya (Uminchu Photographer) /Takeuchi Shu (Executive Director, Igeta Takeuchi Co., Ltd.) /Nakamura Hideki (Onna Village Fisheries Cooperative Councilor) /Shinichiro Kakuma (Specially Appointed Professor, Ocean Energy Research Institute, Saga University, Academic Doctor) /Yamashita Machiyo (Shima Peninsula's Amaids, Mie Prefecture, former chairman of the “Aquaman Association” in Mie Prefecture)

●Furuya Chikako Profile
Born in Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture, lives in Okinawa. Diver and small first-class ship pilot. After engaging in dive fishing as a sailor himself, he became a photographer and photographed the traditional fishing industry of amazing fishermen. Their way of life is documented on TV programs such as TBS “Passion Continent,” NHK “Grand View,” TV Tokyo “Solomon Style,” and BS TV “Dream Dining Table.”
From 2003, I began shooting divas from all over the country, starting with Ama from the Shima Peninsula, and in 2013, I began hands-on coverage of traditional Okinawan karate (kobudo). In 2018, she won the 70th Okinawa Prefectural Sports Festival karate competition (middle-aged women's rhinoceros section). Focusing on the rational use of colors by diving fishermen that are in harmony with nature, they are taking on the challenge of expressing the harmony between people and nature through photographs.

Furuya Chikako Official Site

https://chikakofuruya.com