GRIFFIN MUSEUM SPRING TOUR
WITH JANE EVELYN ATWOOD
Dates: April 5th - 16TH, 2025
OVERVIEW
Join the Griffin Museum in partnership with Nobechi Creative for a trip of a lifetime in Japan this coming spring 2025. Participants will experience Tokyo, Kanazawa and villages that maintain the remnants of Edo Period (pre-1868) living visible all around. We will create many photo opportunities, visit small shops and meet artisans, learn about traditional crafts and embark on optional day hikes on the most beautiful stretches of the mountainsides of Central Japan. We will visit with craftsman making sake and miso and we also visit a washi paper washinery. This will be a trip to engage all the senses. The trip will be led by photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood and be an immersive experience for all.
Class Level
Intermediate-to-advanced amateurs and professional photographers
Itinerary
April 5: Meet in Tokyo, stay in Tokyo
April 6, 7 and 8: Kanazawa
April 9, 10: Gokayama World Heritage
April 11, 12 and 13: Takayama
April 14, 15: Mino
April 16: Tokyo
An optional bonus day in Tokyo can be arranged. Let us know if you are interested in an extension and Tokyo excursion.
*Subject to final arrangements.
What’s included
Two nights at a hotel in Tokyo, the first and last day
Three nights at a contemporary Japanese-design hotel in Kanazawa
Two nights in a traditional thatched roof farmhouse converted into guest houses in Gokayama
Three nights in Takayama
Two nights in Mino. We will say in a converted merchant mansion and warehouse
All domestic travel in the itinerary: bullet train, local train, rental cars, and taxis.
All admissions to sites and museums
Personalized instruction from our photographer instructor
Logistical support from Nobechi Creative
Detailed itinerary and information package on Japan and the destinations
The trip includes 12 nights in well-appointed unique accommodations, 10 dinners, and 2 dinners free for people in towns with many great options. 2 lunches will be provided when we are on the move.
What’s not included
International airfare
Travel Insurance
Alcohol
Meals not in the itinerary, snacks and sundries etc
Tuition
$8,995 per person double occupancy (when paid by bank wire). Single supplement: $1250
Cancellation Policy:
Up to 90 days prior to the trip: 10% fee
89~60 days prior to the trip: 50% fee
59~0 days prior to the trip 100% fee
It is our advice to not book international travel until we have officially confirmed that the trip will proceed.
*Travel insurance is required unless a waiver release is signed.
About JANE EVELYN ATWOOD
Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York and has been living in France since 1971. Her work reflects a deep involvement with her subjects over long periods of time. Fascinated by people and by the idea of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, or choose to ignore.
In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. It was partly on the strength of these photographs that she received the first W . Eugene Smith Award, in 1980, for another story she had just started: blind children. Prior to this, she had never published a photo.
Atwood limits her stories to those that truly compel her, devoting to each subject the time necessary (in some cases, years) to explore it in depth. In 1989 she started to photograph incarcerated women, eventually managing to gain access to some of the world's worst penitentiaries and jails, including death row. This monumental ten-year undertaking (encompassing forty prisons in nine countries of Europe and Eastern Europe, and the United States) remains the definitive photographic work on women in prison to date. It was published as a book in both English and French in 2000 and continues to be exhibited internationally.