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KYOTOGRAPHIE International Portfolio Review 2023 Supported by FUJIFILM
We welcome you to the eighth edition of our International Portfolio Review.
During the opening weekend of KYOTOGRAPHIE, leading figures in the field of photography including curators, editors, gallerists, photo festival directors, publishers, and photographers gather, in addition to professionals in the field of contemporary art, as reviewers.
KYOTOGRAPHIE respects and appreciates all forms of expression through photography. The diversity of our reviewers and the opportunity they present is one of our many contributions to photographers.
In 2022, KYOTOGRAPHIE welcomed 19 reviewers from 5 countries and 52 photographers from 6 countries, and held the first in-person/online hybrid Portfolio Review. We will be fully back to in-person sessions this year. So far participating photographers have had the chance to exhibit in galleries and photography festivals domestic and abroad, publish in prominent platforms both online and in print, while others have published photo books and won world-class photo awards.
Our portfolio review is all-inclusive, open to all ages, nationalities and career levels. We look forward to your submission!
開催日
2023.4.15 Sat. – 16 Sun. | 10:30 – 18:00 The Museum of Kyoto 6th Floor
2023.17 Mon.| 10:30 − 13:00 DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space
＊Portfolio Reviews on April 17th will be held with selected international reviewers.
Reviewers: Simon Baker, Marigold Warner, Fiona Shields
応募締切
4th April, 2023 23:59 (Japan Time)
→Application closed. Thank you for many applications.
KYOTOGRAPHIE Award 2023
This year the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Portfolio Review presents two awards both selected by a professional jury.
FUJIFILM Award
Ruinart Japan Award
The winners will be announced April 16th in a ceremony in Kyoto.
FUJIFILM Award 1組
Awarded to one photographer selected by a jury.
FUJIFILM will select one winner. The winner will be awarded with FUJIFILM X100V (Silver) and given the opportunity to exhibit at FUJIFILM SQUARE in Tokyo Midtown, Roppongi, in autumn 2023.
Ruinart Japan Award 1組
Awarded to one photographer selected by a jury.
The winner of the Ruinart Japan Award has the opportunity to participate in an artist-in-residence program organized by Ruinart, the world's first-established champagne house. The winner will stay in the Champagne region in France to produce a new series of photographic work. In the 2024 edition of KYOTOGRAPHIE, these works will be presented in a main venue as an official KYOTOGRAPHIE program.
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2023 受賞セレモニー
Venue: Kyoto Art Center 2nd Floor Auditorium
Day and Time: Sunday, April 16th 19:00 - 21:00
Registration: KYOTOGRAPHIE will send out registration form for the ceremony
■Portfolio Review
FUJIFILM Award
Ruinart Japan Award
■KG+
KG+SELECT Award 2023
KG+ Discovery Award 2023
Simon Baker has been the director of MEP since May 2018. Prior to this, he was Senior Curator, International Art (Photography) at Tate, London where he curated exhibitions including Don McCullin (Tate Britain, 2019), Shape of Light (Tate Modern, 2018) Performing for the Camera (Tate Modern, 2016), Conflict, Time, Photography (Tate Modern, 2014), and William Klein + Daido Moriyama (Tate Modern, 2012). His first exhibitions for MEP, which opened in March 2019, were Coco Capitan: Busy Living, and Ren Hang: Love, Ren Hang. Simon Baker has a Ph.D. in the History of Art and was an Associate Professor of Art History at Nottingham University (2004–2009). He has published widely on art history, including the recent monograph George Condo: Painting Reconfigured (Thames and Hudson, 2015). Recent publications on photography include essays for books on Coco Capitan, Antony Cairns, Mari Katayama and Maya Rochat.
Mutsuko Ota
(JP)
IMAエディトリアル・ディレクター
Mutsuko Ota
(JP)
IMAエディトリアル・ディレクター
Mutsuko Ota is Editorial Director of IMA magazine, born in Tokyo, 1968. She started her career as an editor at Marie Claire and worked at several men’s magazines such as Esquire, GQ, and others as a feature editor on travel, gastronomy, culture, art, and photography among other areas. Along with collaborating with several magazines as a freelance editor, she also became involved in various fields including art projects, book and catalogue editing, and film promotion throughout her career. She published IMA magazine in 2012. While she participated in magazines as an editorial director, photobooks, and exhibitions, she runs the IMA gallery in Tennousu, Tokyo.
Fiona Shields
(ENG)
Guardian紙写真部長
Review: 16th-17th April<br />
Fiona Shields
(ENG)
Guardian紙写真部長
Fiona Shields has over twenty years of picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles as well as being a curator, speaker on photojournalism and mentor within the photography community. She was picture editor of the Guardian for ten years before taking up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time including the events surrounding 9/11, conflicts around the world, large-scale natural disasters, and the humanitarian crises resulting from the growing refugee numbers across the globe.
In addition, she has judged numerous high-profile photographic awards including World Press Photo, the Sony World Photography Awards, The Carmignac Photojournalism Award, The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and is a regular nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet Prize.
Hideko Kataoka
(JP/ENG)
フォトエディター
キュレーター
Hideko Kataoka
(JP/ENG)
フォトエディター
キュレーター
Hideko was appointed director of photography at Newsweek Japan in 2001. As director of photography, she oversees and directs photography both for the printed and digital editions of the magazine as well as its special issues. In 2004, she created the ‘Picture Power’ section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics from around the world. The book Ten Years of Picture Power, with selected photo stories from this section, was published in 2014.
Hideko has been a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2013, and serves as a member of the External Review Committee at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum since 2016. She participates in portfolio reviews and has served as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, such as World Press Photo, FotoFest and many others.
Eriko Kimura
(JP/ENG)
横浜美術館主任学芸員
Eriko Kimura
(JP/ENG)
横浜美術館主任学芸員
She had been curatorial head of Yokohama Triennale 2020, curator of Yokohama Triennale 2017 and 2014, and an assistant curator of Yokohama Triennale 2005.
Recent curated exhibitions includes; “Identity XVII –Beyond Family and Species-“ (nichido contemporary art, 2021), “Hanran: 20th Century Japanese Photography” (National Gallery of Canada, National Institute of Photography, 2019-2020), “BODY/PLAY/POLITICS” (YMA, 2016), “Cai-Guo Qiang: There and Back Again” (YMA, 2015), “Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary art in Southeast Asia from the collection of Singapore Art Museum,” Co-organized by Singapore Art Museum, (YMA, 2013 / toured to Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2013), “NARA Yoshitomo: a bit like you and me…,” (YMA, 2012 / toured to Aomori Museum of Art, 2013 / Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2013), “Takamine Tadasu: Too Far To See,” (YMA, 2011 / toured to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011 / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011 / Kirishima Open-air Museum, 2011), “Tabaimo: DANMEN” (YMA, 2009-2010 / National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2010), “Teppei KANEUJI: Melting City/ Empty Forest” (YMA, 2009), “GOTH: Reality of the Departed World” (YMA, 2007-08), “Yasumasa Morimura: Bi-Class, Be Quiet” (YMA, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, 2007). Having previously worked as guest curator of “Kuandu Biennale,” Taipei, 2008 and also participated as a commissioner at “Busan Sea Art Festival,” 2011.
RongRong&inri
(JP/CH)
写真家、三影堂撮影芸術中心（北京・廈門）創設者、ジメイ×アルル国際写真祭発起人
レビュー：4/17
RongRong&inri
(JP/CH)
写真家、三影堂撮影芸術中心（北京・廈門）創設者、ジメイ×アルル国際写真祭発起人
Chinese photographic pioneer RongRong (born in 1968) and Japanese photographer inri (born in 1973) teamed up in Beijing in 2000 as “RongRong&inri”, and have since played a leading role in photographic expression in China. In 2007, the pair established China’s first contemporary photography center, “Three Shadows Photography Art Centre”, in Caochangdi in Beijing. With the aim of becoming a platform for the discovery, dissemination, and development of contemporary photographic art in China, the center holds a variety of exhibitions and programs throughout the year.
Yumi Goto is an independent photography curator, editor, researcher, consultant, educator, and publisher who focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders.
She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses, and women’s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as being involved as a nominator and juror for the international photographic organizations, festivals, and events.
She is now based in Tokyo and also a co-founder and curator for the Reminders Photography Stronghold (RPS) which is a curated membership gallery space in Tokyo enabling a wide range of photographic activities. In addition to the RPS in Tokyo, she established a new RPS offshoot “PAPEROLES” in Kyoto and started its activities since 2020.
Tomoka Aya
(日本語)
The Third Gallery Aya代表、日本写真芸術協会理事、大阪国際メディア図書館理事
Tomoka Aya
(日本語)
The Third Gallery Aya代表、日本写真芸術協会理事、大阪国際メディア図書館理事
Born in Osaka, Aya is the owner and director of The Third Gallery Aya founded in 1996. She deals with photography and modern arts, and collaborates in exhibition with artists such as Miyako Ishiuchi, Eiko Yamazawa, Toshiko Okanoue, Hisae Imai, Jo Spence, Shigeo Gocho, Jun Abe, Asako Narahashi, Fusako Kodama, Koichi Watanabe, Tomoko Inagaki, Hiromi Kakimoto, Yu Kawakita and Ryuichi Ishikawa. She also introduces artists internationally through art fairs, such as world’s largest photographic art fair Paris Photo and Asia’s largest modern arts fair Art Basel Hong Kong.
Taka Kawachi has extensice international experience, having graduated from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, to then working in New York City as a book editor and curator for 15 years, including Richard Prince, Nan Goldin and Patti Smith exhibition and book.
Returning to Japan in 2011, he started to write essays on art and photography. In 2016, Kawachi published his first book "Art no Iriguchi (Entrance to the Arts, on American Art)" followed by his second publication on European Art in the same year. In 2019 and 2020, he published his third and fourth book "The Artists 1 & 2". These publications illustrate his experiences of art, photography design and architecture, and offers readers an opportunity to engage with the history and subjects of both regions from his unique point of view.
He is currently the Director of the Overseas Division of Kyoto's Benrido, working to disseminate the classic and rare photographic proccess of Collotype, and produced produced portfolios of Saul Leiter, Rinko Kawauchi, Masao Yamamoto, Robert Doisneau and J.H. Lartigue.
Annemarie Zethof
(ENG)
IBASHO Gallery
共同設立者、ディレクター
インディペンデント・キュレーター
Annemarie Zethof
(ENG)
IBASHO Gallery
共同設立者、ディレクター
インディペンデント・キュレーター
Director and co-founder of IBASHO in Antwerp, Belgium and independent curator.
Annemarie Zethof was born in 1971 in the Netherlands. After a career of 10 years as a solicitor in Amsterdam, she switched to photography. She studied at the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam, and Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and has a Master's Degree in Photography from the University of Manchester. After having lived in London for nearly 6 years and having interned with James Hyman Gallery in London, she moved to Antwerp to open a gallery specializing in Japanese photography together with her husband, Martijn van Pieterson. Since the opening of IBASHO in March 2015, the gallery has held 58 exhibitions in Antwerp. IBASHO has been participating in the photography fairs Paris Photo, Photo London, UNSEEN (Amsterdam), Photo Basel and AIPAD in New York, of which organization IBASHO is a member. The gallery has also participated in Art Paris, SPARK (Vienna) and Art Antwerp. Together with the French publisher the(M) èdition, IBASHO has co-published 21 books since September 2019. Annemarie is also an independent curator and works on photography projects related and unrelated to Japanese photography. She has curated two exhibitions for Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis in Leiden, the Netherlands: Japanese Nudes (2019) and Wabi-sabi, Japanese aesthetics in photography and ceramics (2022).
Almudena Javares
(ENG/ESP/FR)
インディペンデントキュレーター、芸術文化プロジェクトマネージャー
Almudena Javares
(ENG/ESP/FR)
インディペンデントキュレーター、芸術文化プロジェクトマネージャー
Master in Management of International Cultural Projects (Université Paris VIII) and Master in Literary Studies (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). She has developed her professional career as an artistic programmer, curator and cultural manager in multidisciplinary spaces, projects and festivals in various parts of Europe and Latin America.
She worked with Fundación Contemporánea and La Fábrica (Spain) in the festivals and exhibitions department, from where PHotoEspaña is developed. She was part of the coordination team for projects such as Noche de los Libros (Madrid), the Fête du Livre de Var (France), the Eñe Madrid Festival and the Eñe América Festival.
Also included in her professional career is the coordination of the artistic programming of the Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires, a space for scenic creation and visual arts, with an outstanding photography gallery; the cultural management at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires and at the Directorate of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), dedicated to the promotion and cooperationof international cultural relations in Spain. She was also part of different non-governmental
organizations focused on culture, gender and human rights.
She has worked as a freelance curator on different photography, art, performing arts, and literature projects in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, and Peru, among others. She is currently immersed in the world of museology and museum curators.
Lou Tsatsas
(FR/ENG)
シニアエディター
Fisheye Magazine Online
Lou Tsatsas
(FR/ENG)
シニアエディター
Fisheye Magazine Online
Lou Tsatsas studied literature, history, languages and political sciences before turning to the arts. After working with various creatives in New York, she moved back to France and started her journalistic career. Now senior editor of Fisheye Magazine’s website - a media for which she has been working for more than 5 years - she aims at promoting new visual aesthetics and narratives and pays great attention to the visualization of minorities.
Fumiko Nakamura
(日本語)
愛知県美術館学芸員
Fumiko Nakamura
(日本語)
愛知県美術館学芸員
Senior Curator/Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Curator/Aichi Triennale 2022
Nakamura is active in the Tokai and Kansai regions of Japan. A specialist in visual culture studies, photography, and contemporary art, she has been with Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art since 2007 and has curated such exhibitions as "In The Little Playground" (2009), "Art As Magic" (2012), and "Photography Will Be" (2014). She also founded the museum’s solo exhibition series APMoA Project, ARCH (2012-2017) providing a platform for emerging artists. In 2015 she served as part of the curatorial team for the Japan Foundation’s collaborative research project between Japan and South East Asia titled Condition Report. She also curated Play in the Flow, a 2017 group exhibition presented in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Hyunjung Son
(ENG/KR)
キュレーター、ソウル市 文化本部(ソウル市立写真美術館)
Hyunjung Son
(ENG/KR)
キュレーター、ソウル市 文化本部(ソウル市立写真美術館)
Hyunjung Son is a curator and lecturer based in Seoul.
Since 2016 she’s been working as a curator for establishing The Photographic Arts Center, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea’s first public Museum for photography, where she has developed the Korean Photography Collection and Research. She is interested in contemporary art activities based on a photographic medium and researching photographic images and photographers who are alienated from existing photography or art discourse.
She recently curated the exhibition The Printed World, The Photographic Arts Center, Seoul Museum of Art Pre-opening Program (2022, Seoul Museum of Art). She served as curator and coordinator of Daegu International Photo Festival “Photographics”(2012) and SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL(2013~2015): “Portraits of our time 1883~2013(2013)”, “The Birth of Seoul’s Visual Space: Hanseong, Gyeongseong, Seoul(2014)”, “The Photographers in the Library(2015)”. She also has served as an editing manager at IANNBOOKS, the contemporary art book publisher in Korea.
Maria Pia Bernardoni
(英語)
キュレーター、プロジェクトオーガナイザー
Maria Pia Bernardoni
(英語)
キュレーター、プロジェクトオーガナイザー
Maria Pia Bernardoni is a curator and cross-cultural project organizer. With a background in law, she focuses on the organization and promotion of community-based projects with a social impact. She promotes cross-cultural projects and exchanges between Europe and Africa, breaking barriers and stereotypes. Having worked with artists and institutions from several West African countries, as curator, consultant and artists’ representative, she has built a trusted reputation, networks and relationships with many African arts practitioners. Curator of international exhibitions for the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto festival since 2015 and part of the curatorial team of the festival from 2015 to 2019. She co-curated the exhibition “Day your Lane” at Bozar Museum in Bruxelles and “Tear my Bra” at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2016. She curated the exhibition “AfricAfrica” at Palazzo Litta, Milan in 2018. Advisor and project manager for the community art project “My Story is a Story of Hope” by Patrick Willocq, in 2017. She conceived and directed the short film “If I Left My Country”, a series of interviews with asylum seekers and french citizens, shown at Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Festival in 2018. Visiting researcher at Brighton University, in 2020, with a project aiming at building innovative collaborations between the academy and the contemporary art world.
Marigold Warner
(ENG/JP)
フリーランスアートライター・エディター
Review: 16th-17th April
Marigold Warner
(ENG/JP)
フリーランスアートライター・エディター
Marigold Warner is a freelance arts and culture writer. Previously, she was deputy editor at British Journal Photography, working for five years on print and online publications. Her work has been published in titles including the Telegraph Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Elephant, Huck, Gal-dem, Disegno, The Face, and the Architects Journal. She has also worked on creative content campaigns with brands including Leica, Wateraid, Adidas, and Panasonic.
Masakazu Murakami
(日本語)
雑誌「写真」編集長
Masakazu Murakami
(日本語)
雑誌「写真」編集長
Born in 1977, Tokyo. Winner of the Grand Prix of the 16th Photography ”Hitotsubo-ten”, and the 5th Visual Arts Photo Award. Published photobooks include “Kumogakure Onsen” and ”Subway Diary”. From 2008 to 2021, worked as an editor at ”Nippon Camera Magazine”, editing portfolios and photobooks. Founded the company ”Photo & Culture,Tokyo (PCT)” and established a new website in 2021 and in January 2022 launched a new magazine, "Sha Shin", as editor-in-chief.
Mika Kobayashi
(ENG/JP)
写真研究家
Mika Kobayashi
(ENG/JP)
写真研究家
Mika Kobayashi is a photographer who writes about how gender issues are dealt with in the photographic medium and translates related articles overseas. Mika also gives lectures, conducts workshops, produces photography exhibitions and does consulting. In addition, she is a part-time lecturer at Kyushu University and at Tokyo Zokei University.
Hiroko Kuboyama
(日本語)
ブルームギャラリー代表
Hiroko Kuboyama
(日本語)
ブルームギャラリー代表
Born in Fukuoka and residing in Osaka, Hiroko Kuboyama founded Bloom Gallery in 2009. Kuboyama deals mainly with artists with connections to Western Japan, such as AOKI takamasa, Ouka Ueno, Akira Otsubo, Kiyoshi Niiyama, Tadashi Hayashi and Yoshinori Henguchi. Stemming from his post-disaster experience, Kuboyama has felt the need of creating places and systems that can preserve photographs. In recent years, in addition to conducting exchange exhibitions in collaboration with galleries and writers both in Japan and overseas, he has also conducted a wide range of activities centered on photography. His projects include collecting photographs that have been scattered throughout the region and making an archive of deceased authors.
概要
日時
2023.4.15 Sat. – 16 Sun. | 10:30 – 18:00 The Museum of Kyoto 6th Floor
2023.4.17 Mon. | 10:30 − 13:00 DELTA / KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space
＊Portfolio Reviews on April 17th will be held with selected international reviewers.
Reviewers: Simon Baker, Marigold Warner
申込費
¥1,000
参加費
3 reviews: ¥25,000 5 reviews: ¥35,000
参加費（学割）
3 reviews ¥ 15,000 5 reviews ¥ 25,000
＊20 min for each session
＊Each participant will recceive a KYOTOGRAPHIE 2023 passport ticket that allows an entry to all main venues of the festival at the reception of the Portfolio Review
会場
4.15-16
The Museum of Kyoto 6th Floor
Sanjo-Takakura, Nakagyo-Ku, Kyoto-City, Kyoto, Japan, 604-8183
Subway: 3 minutes walk from Karasuma Oike Station
Hankyu Line: 7 minutes walk from Karasuma Station
Keihan Line: 15 minutes walk from Sanjo Station
City Bus: 2 minutes walk from Sakaimachi Oike Bus Stop
For any questions, please contact via email addressed to portfolio.review@kyotographie.jp
* Please do not call the venue about event information.
応募締め切り
4th April 2023, 23:59 (Japan Time)
→Application closed. Thank you for many applications.
レビューについて
Reviews are 20 minutes long with a 10-minute break in between. Every effort will be made during the allocation process to meet your preferences. During the allocation process, the result of screening, your preferences, and your submitted work are all taken into consideration. In principle, we plan to allocate you at least one of the preferred reviewers, for example, if you select 3 reviews you will get one of your preferences if 5 reviews then 2. Also, participants will have reviewers whom KYOTOGRAPHIE recommends. Please understand that the number of sessions varies by reviewers and that we do not guarantee that you will have reviewers of your preference.
Please note that it is a prerequisite for participants to attend the review. Thank you for your understanding.
Furthermore, we strongly recommend those who may need interpreters for their review sessions assign their own. KYOTOGRAPHIE will have a handful volunteer interpreters on site, but will not provide nor arrange preparatory meetings between reviewees and interpreters prior to the dates. In case you need one, please check the entry form to request.
Please fill out the online entry form with the required information, 5 to 10 images for samples of your work, and pay the application fee (flat rate of 1,000 yen).
The deadline for entries is 23:59 Japan time on 4th April, 2023.
After the application deadline, the KYOTOGRAPHIE team will conduct a pre-screening process for the review.
The selection for two portfolio review awards (FUJIFILM Award and Ruinart Japan Award) will be based on this entry form.
The KYOTOGRAPHIE team will inform you as soon as possible after April 4th whether you have passed the pre-screening. We will also contact the successful applicants to pay the review fee by a given deadline.
Once we have received your payment, we will contact you with schedules for review sessions with the reviewer(s) of your choice.
Please note that the number of reviews will vary from reviewer to reviewer. We will do our best to accommodate all requests. If you request three reviews, you will be assigned at least one reviewer; if you request five reviews, you will be assigned at least two reviewers.
