Kyotographie was founded by Lucille Reyboz, a French photographer who grew up in Africa and who discovered the same cosmogony in Japan, which inspired this festival housed in the traditional wooden temples and homes of the former Japanese imperial capital. The exhibitions pay tribute to the beautiful setting. Unlike the hero of Yukio Mishima, in whom beauty inspired a destructive impulse, here beauty only inspires a desire to preserve and admire.
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