Kyotographie: An International Photo Festival in Japan’s Ancient Capital

Books featuring photographs by Lucille Reyboz (clockwise from top right): Batammaba bâtisseurs d'univers (2004), featuring close-up coverage of the Tamberma people in Togo; Impressions du Japan (2013), photos of Japan with text by Hirano Keiichirō; Belles de Bamako (2011), scenes of women at weddings and of everyday life in Bamako, Mali; Source (2007), a collection of photos of Japanese women in hot springs baths.

The opening party held in the Museum of Kyoto on April 18.

Nature in Tokyo, consisting of works by 13 contemporary Japanese photographers selected by M, a magazine supplement to the French newspaper Le Monde. The venue for this exhibit at Kyotographie was the Kōdōkan, a school established by the Confucian scholar Minagawa Kien in 1806.

Still Crazy, with photos by Hirokawa Taishi of nuclear power plants in contemporary Japanese landscapes; displayed at Kyoto’s Shimogamo Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage site, normally not open to the public.

Japanese Photobooks Then and Now (left), featuring photobooks from the period following World War II until today, at the Asphodel event space in Gion. (Right) Eternal Japan 1951–52 Werner Bischof (right), an exhibit of photos by the Swiss photographer presented at Mumeisha, a Kyo-machiya, or Kyoto townhouse, built in 1909.

Tim Flach’s More Than Human exhibit. The venue, Shimadai Gallery, housed a sake wholesaler and raw-silk merchant from the mid-Edo period (1603–1868) before being converted into a traditional townhouse in 1883.

Standing in front of the high-definition monitor used for the Mars, a Photographic Exploration exhibit are (from left to right) Oliver Franz, the exhibition designer; Xavier Barral, the curator; and Takatani Shirō, the artist who prepared the video installation.