Talk & Book Signing

#2 “KG+SELECT 10YEARS, 10 ARTISTS” Book Discussion
Supported by SIGMA

2025.5.3: 14:00–15:30

TIME'S

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To celebrate the publication of the KG+SELECT Award photobook, marking its 10th anniversary, a special cross-talk event will be held featuring past award winners. They will share their insights on stepping up from the KG+ Award to KYOTOGRAPHIE, their creative journeys since then, and their perspectives as photographers navigating the art world today.

Important Notice: * Those wishing to attend the event are requested to gather at the TIME'S 1st floor reception desk 15 minutes prior to the start time.
* After the event, there will be a book signing by the artists.

Speakers Speakers

Eriko Koga (KG＋ AWARD 2015 Winner)

Eriko Koga was born in Fukuoka City in 1980. She graduated from the Department of French Literature of Sophia University. She creates photographic works from a unique perspective, with the themes of life and death, the sacred and the secular, and love and sorrow that reside in our daily lives as a backdrop. Her main works include the photo collections Asakusa Zenzai (Seigensha, 2011), Issan (AKAAKA, 2015), TRYADHVAN (AKAAKA, 2016), and BELL (AKAAKA, 2020). She has received numerous awards, including the Photo Documentary ‘NIPPON’ Award (2004), the Sagamihara Photography Newcomer Award (2012), the KG＋ AWARD (2015), and the Prix Virginia Special Jury Prize (2018). She has held solo and group exhibitions at galleries, museums, and photography festivals in Japan and abroad. Her works are included in the collections of the National Library of France and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Atsushi Fukushima (KG＋SELECT Award 2019 Winner)

Atsushi Fukushima creates works based on a belief that 'human life is powerful and beautiful.'
He visits people’s workplaces and living spaces and expresses, through photography and words, what he experiences there, sensations and thoughts that can only be acquired there. Working for ten years as a delivery person for a bento shop serving the elderly, he took pictures of elderly customers who lived alone. He worked as a farmer for five years, photographing the intense summer harvest season. He also launched the ‘ZIPANGU Project,’ traveling across the Japanese archipelago three times on foot and photographing the lives of people he met.