
エド・パナール (Ed Panar) 写真展
「Animals That Saw Me」
2026年3月11日(水)- 4月18日(土)
16:00 – 22:00
定休日:日・月・火
1drink order
スタジオ35分
東京都中野区上高田5-47-8
ーオープニング レセプションー
3月11日(水)18:00~22:00
*作家在廊いたします
ーライブ&歓迎会ー
3月21日(土)18:00~22:00
Live act :
Rob Noyes(ロブ・ノイズ)
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/artist/7fZ7su6bgTRy96bAUZJVaT
ソロ・アコースティック・ギタリスト
*作家在廊いたします
この度、スタジオ35分では、アメリカ・ピッツバーグ在住の写真家、エド・パナールによる日本初個展「Animals That Saw Me」を開催いたします。パナールはこれまで、アメリカ国内外で多数の展覧会を開催し、精力的に作品集を出版するなど、国際的に高い評価を得ている写真家です。
2011年に出版され、同年にアメリカの写真集サイト「photo-eye」でベスト写真集のひとつに選出された本作は、「私を見た動物たち」というタイトルが示す通り、動物たちが人間に向けた不意の視線を捉えたシリーズです。
カメラを向ける人間が動物を一方的に「見る」のではなく、不意に動物たちの視線に射抜かれ、「見られていた」自分に気づく――。2016年刊行の『Volume 2』も含めたこれら一連の作品群は、写真メディアの永遠のテーマである「見る/見られる」の関係性を、思慮深い洞察と独特のユーモアを交えて提示しています。
本展では、これら2つの作品集から作家と共に厳選した作品を展示いたします。パナールの眼差しが日本で初めて紹介されるこの貴重な機会に、ぜひご高覧ください。
外を歩きながら写真を撮っているとき、私はたいてい人を避けるようにしています。
しかし、ときには他の生きものの視線を避けきれないこともあります。文字どおり「現行犯」で見つかることもあれば、もう少し長く、互いの存在を意識し合うような時間が流れることもあります。
こうした瞬間の積み重ねから生まれたのが、「Animals That Saw Me」というシリーズです。そこには、別の生きものに見られているという、不思議な感覚への考察が込められています。
このシリーズは、ひとつの素朴な問いを投げかけますー「彼らの目には、世界はどのように映っているのだろうか?」。そして、種を越えた生物のあいだに生まれる、不思議な相互認識の瞬間について考えるきっかけを与えてくれます。
Ed Panar/エド・パナー https://www.edpanar.com
ピッツバーグを拠点に活動する写真家、ブックメーカー。
『Winter Nights, Walking』(books & Spaces Corners,2023)
『In the Vicinity』(Deadbeat Club,2018)
『Animals That Saw Me Volume One and Volume Two』(The Ice Plannet,2011、2016)
『Salad Days』(Gottlund Verlag,2012)
『Same Difference』(Gottlund Verlag,2010)、
『Golden Palms』(J&L Books,2007)など、複数の写真集を刊行している。
写真作品や写真集は、シカゴ現代写真美術館(Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago)や、サンフランシスコのPier 24 Photography などで展示されてきた。
2022年にハインツ財団クリエイティブ・ディベロップメント賞を受賞。
同年、ジョン・サイモン・グッゲンハイム記念財団フェローシップの受賞。
Ed Panar
“Animals That Saw Me”
March 11 (Wed) –April 18 (Sat), 2026
Open: 16:00 – 22:00
Closed: Sun / Mon / Tue
1 drink order required
Studio 35 Minutes
5-47-8 Kamitakaida, Nakano-ku, Tokyo
— Opening Reception —
Wednesday, March 11
18:00–22:00
*The artist will be present.
— Live Performance & Welcome Party —
Saturday, March 21
18:00–22:00
Live Act:
Rob Noyes
Solo acoustic guitarist
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/artist/7fZ7su6bgTRy96bAUZJVaT
*The artist will be present.
Studio 35 Minutes is pleased to present “Animals That Saw Me,” the first solo exhibition in Japan by Pittsburgh-based photographer Ed Panar. Having exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally, Panar has established a distinguished career with numerous publications to his name.
His seminal photobook Animals That Saw Me, published in 2011, was selected as one of the best photobooks of the year by the renowned photography site photo-eye. As the title suggests, the series captures the unexpected gazes directed toward the photographer by various animals.
In this work, and its 2016 successor Animals That Saw Me: Volume 2, Panar subverts the traditional act of “looking.” Rather than the human observer simply watching the animal, the photographer finds himself caught in their sight—realizing he was being watched all along. Through a thoughtful yet humorous lens, Panar explores the perennial photographic theme of “seeing and being seen.”
This exhibition features a selection of works curated in collaboration with the artist from both volumes. We invite you to experience the unique world of Ed Panar in his long-awaited Japanese debut.
Animals That Saw Me
Photographs by Ed Panar
When I am out wandering and taking pictures I typically tend to avoid people, but sometimes it is impossible to avoid being seen by other creatures. Sometimes I am literally ‘caught in the act’ and other times there is a longer, more lingering moment of mutual awareness between us. These moments come together as a meditation on the strange feeling of being seen by another creature in the series Animals That Saw Me. The series asks a simple question – How might the world appear from their point of view? – and offers an opportunity to reflect upon the uncanny and fleeting moment of shared recognition between species.
Roaming the natural and urban world with a camera for over 25 years, often alone, on foot, keeping a low profile, Ed Panar has repeatedly been caught in the act of photography—not by other people, but by a random assortment of familiar animals: cows, cats, frogs, dogs, turtles, deer, geese…you name it. The animal sees Ed, and Ed sees the animal; an unspoken communication passes between them. If he’s lucky, the moment is captured on film, catalogued, tagged for future reference. In Animals That Saw Me: Volume One Panar brings together the first collection of his most surprising and unexpected encounters with ordinary fauna—a brief, deadpan field study of the uncanny moment of recognition between species. What exactly have the animals seen? The pictures are a reminder that we must appear as strange and exotic to them as they do to us.
Ed Panar is a Pittsburgh based photographer and bookmaker. He has published several photobooks including: Winter Nights, Walking (2023), In the Vicinity (2018), Animals That Saw Me Volume One and Volume Two (2011 and 2016), Salad Days (2012), Same Difference (2010), and Golden Palms (2007). His photographs and books have been exhibited at venues including The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago,and at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco. Ed has received The Heinz Endowments Creative Development Award in 2022 and is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.