Exhibition Walkthrough: Mao Ishikawa: Rogue

Please join us on June 4th from 5—7 PM. for a walkthrough of Mao Ishikawa: Rogue with Pauline Vermare, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum.

Widely recognized as one of Japan’s most important photographers, Ishikawa has spent decades documenting life in Okinawa, portraying communities shaped by the lasting presence of the American military occupation with candor, intimacy, and deep political awareness. Moving fluidly between portraiture, street photography, and personal documentary, her work resists distance between photographer and subject, foregrounding lived experience and collective memory. During the walkthrough, Vermare will discuss the exhibition and Ishikawa’s wider practice.

The evening will conclude with cocktails and conversation in the gallery!

Attendance is limited to 30 guests.
Reservations are required.

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About Pauline Vermare

Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. She was formerly the cultural director of Magnum Photos NY, and a curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, in Paris. She sits on the boards of the Saul Leiter Foundation and the Catherine Leroy Fund.

Vermare is the co-editor of I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, published by Aperture and presented internationally as an exhibition project featuring the work of Mao Ishikawa alongside a generation of groundbreaking Japanese women photographers.