HUMANITY 2O25 O4.12 SAT ― O5.11 SUN

KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival | 京都国際写真祭

  • Motherland: The Festive Tableau, 2009 © Pushpamala N

  • The Chronicles of San Francisco, Lightbox, USA, 2018 © JR

  • Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas,1979, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico © Graciela Iturbide

  • Chichén Itzá, Mexico, 2002 © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

  • © Eric Poitevin

  • © Mao Ishikawa

  • © Adam Rouhana

  • * This image represents work in progress ©︎ Tamaki Yoshida

  • Being There_52-V1, 2024, The Anonymous Project © Lee Shulman & Omar Victor Diop

  • Clothed in Sunny Finery, Okayama, 2018 © Keijiro Kai

  • K-01 (Irish series), 2018 © Eamonn Doyle

  • feminist, 2021, Abidjan © Laetitia Ky

  • My Parents–Stigmata © Liu Hsing-Yu

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Humanity encompasses the diverse experiences and qualities that define us as individuals and as a collective. As we grow further as a society, how do we define humanity? Reflecting on our capacity for love, empathy, and resilience, the 2025 KYOTOGRAPHIE theme is illuminated through two distinct cultural perspectives: the Japanese and the Western, exploring the diversity of human experience. Western traditions often highlight individuality, autonomy, and the centrality of humans in the world, celebrating personal freedom and universal moral principles. In contrast, the Japanese concept of humanity is deeply relational, emphasizing harmony and interdependence, and viewing humanity as inseparable from the natural world. The lived experience is central to the works within this year’s program. Artworks created from deep emotional responses to life reflect and comment on the fabric in which each of us exist. Perhaps our shared traits and values remind us of our responsibility to nurture compassion, foster understanding and create a sense of belonging, and connection. In seeking meaning together through the power of photography we hope that it may engage people to create a shared understanding of humanity in all its complexity, inspiring greater connection and shared accountability in our ever-changing and chaotic world.

Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi
Co-founders and Co-Directors of
KYOTOGRAPHIE

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「Life that unfolds」 川内倫子・潮田登久子 Presented by Japan House Sao Paulo. In collaboration with KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival

Japan House São Paulo in collaboration with KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, is pleased to present the exhibition, Life that unfolds. The exhibition, a visual dialogue between Japanese photographers Rinko Kawauchi and Tokuko Ushioda, is now showing in São Paulo, Brazil.

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