Keijiro Kai 甲斐啓二郎

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1974, Keijiro Kai graduated from the Tokyo School of Photography in 2002. He is currently a part-time instructor at the same school.
He has participated in festivals and group exhibitions including the Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea, 2016), Taipei Photo (Taiwan, 2018), Noorderlicht International Photography Festival (Netherlands, 2019), and T3 Photo Festival Tokyo (Tokyo, 2024). He has also held numerous solo exhibitions. Kai's photo books include Shrove Tuesday (TOTEM POLE PHOTO GALLERY, 2013), Wounded Bear (TOTEM POLE PHOTO GALLERY, 2016), Bone Marrow (Shinjuku Shobo, 2020), and Kira no Haregi (ZEN FOTO GALLERY, 2023).
In 2016, Kai won the 28th Photographic Society Award for his photo exhibitions Wounded Bear and Bone Marrow. In 2020, he received the 20th Sagamihara Photography Award for the photo book Bone Marrow. In 2021, he won the 45th Ina Nobuo Award for the same exhibition.


At KYOTOGRAPHIE Kai focuses on capturing Japan, Europe, and South America, etc. Physical traditional events that predate the modern concept of sports. He emerges himself in these practices and uses photography to engage with fundamental questions about human "life."