Inside

The room, before it opens

It is being built. What follows is the shot list, written out: six things that will be photographed, and the caption each one will carry.

One room, on the courtyard side of a building that opened in 1901. The banyan is through the door.

There are no photographs yet because there is nothing yet to photograph. When the walls are up and the work is on them, we will get a photographer in and put the pictures here.

The door

The entrance, from the hotel’s ground floor.

The long wall

The exhibition wall. What hangs here changes through the year.

A label

Every piece carries five lines: who made it, what it is, where and when, what it is made from and how, and how many exist.

The film alcove

The alcove where the film will run. Chairs, about ten minutes, and you do not have to buy anything. Screening rights are being cleared with the film’s producers.

The table

Work by island makers, named and credited, with the town it came from on the label.

The courtyard door

The banyan was planted in 1904. Hawaii Calls was broadcast from under it for forty years.

For the photographer

Natural light. No flash on the work.
The building is a co-star. Get the architecture in frame, not cropped out.
Real hands and real faces, with permission and with names. Every maker photographed is credited by name.
Detail and whole room, both. A wall of details reads as a catalogue.
No sunset surfboard silhouettes, no neon, no props brought in for the shot.
No archival image of Duke gets used anywhere until it is cleared in writing, per image.

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