Exhibition “SUMMER OF 1965”

@STUDIO 35 MINUTES, Araiyakushiji, Nakano, Tokyo..
From September 11th to 21st, 2019

Mike went to the United States for the first time as an exchange student when he was in the third-year at Rikkyo High School in 1965. It was a month-long trip that took them to Los Angeles, Oklahoma, Chicago, New York, and Hawaii. They stayed in Washington, D.C. for a week. As a high school student who loves cameras, He went through around 10 rolls of Ektachrome color slides (color positive film) during the trip without giving them a second thought. The color photos he took then were surprisingly good and he still like them. Later in 2018, he realized that the person in one of the photos he took in New York was Nico before she joined The Velvet Underground. It looked like she was on location for a movie, so maybe Andy Warhol was nearby.