The 16th exchange between photographers in Phoenix and Himeji, sister cities since 1976, began with the visit of Haruhiko Shimauchi and Noriyoshi Kanda to Arizona in February, 2008. Hosted by TEOE Photographers Dennis Scully and Maurice Sartirana, their shooting schedule included Super Bowl activities at West Gate, a Chocolate festival and fire cadet training in Glendale.

Sartirana and Scully will complete the exchange by traveling to Japan. The participants stay at each other's homes while traveling abroad, making the experience a rich cultural exchange that was about far more than making pictures. Each photographer will feature 20 prints in the resulting exhibit, presenting images of how two cultures perceive one another.

JAPAN EXCHANGE 2007
Through Each Others Eyes™, a non-profit organization which sponsors photographic exchange exhibitions in nine countries around the world, sent photographers Colleen Miniuk-Sperry and Art Holeman to Himeji in April 2007 to photograph the culture and people there. TEOE then invited Japanese photographers Itsuko Azumi and Yasushi Ienaga to Arizona at the end of April 2007 and into May to photograph the people and the landscape of Arizona.

TEOE's counterpart in Japan is Himeji International Photographers' Society (HIPS). See more of the 15th exchange exhibit on the HIPS Web site.