Hello Tokyo! Ghostings

Shihoko Iida and I met in 2005 while she was on a preliminary visit to Australia for a Japan Foundation project that would later manifest as Rapt, held across Melbourne and Sydney in October 2006. Two years later we were collaborating on collating and sharing research towards an exhibition centred on contemporary expressions of the ghost in photomedia to be held at the highly visible Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in late 2008.

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