Photo by Kozo Takayama

■Store information
Open:Saturday, March 15th, 2014
Address:AXIS Bldg.,3F, Roppongi 5-17-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Business hours: 11:00～22:00(No regular holiday) ※Except Summer and year-end holiday.
Line of goods: Photography work, Photography book, original goods, etc.
Service: Photo related seminar and work shop, café, etc.
URL:http://imaonline.jp/list/imaconceptstore

■Brief Overview
With the concept of “LIVING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY”, “IMA Media Project”（amana holdings inc.）produces such as “IMA” magazine, ”IMA ONLINE” web site, and photo related events and seminars. It opens “IMA CONCEPT STORE” to offer various pleasures of photos in real as multi-objective space in Roppongi AXIS building on Saturday, March 15th.
It will sell artistic photos, photo books and collaboration goods with the photographers, creators, and popular shops. In addition, it will hold seminars and events by photographers, celebrities, and business enterprises. It aims to produce a space where all the life style -conscious people who care about fashion, interior, music, architecture, and gourmet, can enjoy.

Space produce/JTQ Inc. Planning・Design/ SANDWICH Inc.　Graphic Design/ Brown:Design

■The space composition of IMA CONCEPT STORE
IMA CONCEPT STORE specialized in photography has 500㎡, the largest commerce facility of its kind in Tokyo. It composed of three facilities; “IMA Gallery”, “IMA Books”, and “IMA Café”.

＜IMA Gallery＞
Unconventional style gallery will open where art photography can be purchased easily. “IMA” magazine editorial department produces projects such as group or theme exhibition by young or overseas’ artists to enjoy photography in casual way. Also the space regularly holds lectures, workshops, and talk events to create the opportunity to enjoy and learn photography multidirectionally.

＜IMA Books＞
IMA Books covers around 2,000 titles includes overseas labels which domestic distribution is small, or short prints. It operates closely with “IMA” Magazine to offer full of original plans to seek into the curiosity about the concept and the history of the photo books, also it will expand its line of books, which people want to enjoy as interior, add to collection, or send as gift.

＜IMA Café＞
IMA Café ,uses the best quality-specific coffee, is open inside the facility. OBSCURA COFFEE ROASTERS, deals with every process by themselves, from bean purchase to roasting, supervised the café, and delivers carefully selected coffee from across the world.