PhotographyFestivals

From 794 to 1868, Kyoto has been the imperial capital of Japan and today is worldwide well-known for its graceful zen gardens and more than 2000 magnificently preserved Buddhist temples…

Born in March 1933 in Yonezawa, Yamagata, Eikoh Hosoe graduated at Tokyo College of Photography in 1954 and became a freelance photographer, emerging in the experimental arts movement of post-World…

Malick Sidibé (1936) is a photographer From Mali ( Africa), famous for his black and white pictures of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. After Design and Jewelry…

From the 247th to 341st Day, Tohoku. 
This is the title of the series that Tadashi Ono took between the 247th and 341st day after March 11th 2011, the…

The Onishi family has been a part of the history of Kyoto and Cha-do, the way of tea, for the past 400 hundred years. 
Onishi Seiwemon XVI is the current…

Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), was a 20th Century Swiss traveler and writer, a poet, a photographer, an iconographer, a teacher, and a radio and television journalist. Educated at the University of…

Born in 1963, Shiro Takatani graduated from the department of Environmental Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. He joined Dumb Type as a founding member in…

After graduation from l’Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne in 1984, Kate Barry (daughter of Jane Birkin and music composer John Barry) made her debut as…

Christian Polak is a French businessman and historian of Franco-Japanese relations. Based in Japan, he has established a unique photographic collection of both historical and graphic importance. A part of…

The National Superior School of Photography (ENSP), founded in 1982 in Arles, is a higher education establishment for fine art photography. Under the general supervision of the French Ministry of…