ACAC will host a workshop by MAETANI Kai, one of the participating artists in the Artist in Residence Program 2025 “CAMP.” In this session, participants will engage in a series of processes with Maetani—who has long worked with photography as his central medium—by photographing with black-and-white film and projecting the resulting images into space.
What meanings might emerge from the acts of photographing, developing, and projecting images together, using a single camera within a small group?
The camera will be provided, so participants do not need to bring their own. The artist will also offer hands-on support throughout the shooting process, so no prior technical experience is required.

Artist’s Statement
In my practice, I have often used self-portraiture as a means of expression—turning the camera toward myself as a subject. While framing landscapes is one of photography’s many attractions, I would like to use this workshop to think together about different ways of seeing—ways that go beyond simply pointing a camera or smartphone at what lies before us.
Sometimes, when I feel that I may never meet someone again, I think that person has “become a photograph.” There is a sense of distance and closeness that coexists between the photograph I hold in my hands and the person I can no longer touch.
That feeling—of nearness and remoteness at once—is one of the reasons I love photography.