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Bharat Mata © Pushpamaala N
©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025
The Chronicles of Kyoto, Close Up, Japan, 2024 © JR
©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025
©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas,1979, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico © Graciela Iturbide
Chichén Itzá, Mexico, 2002 © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
© Eric Poitevin
© Mao Ishikawa
© Adam Rouhana
* This image represents work in progress ©︎ Tamaki Yoshida
Being There_52-V1, 2024, The Anonymous Project © Lee Shulman & Omar Victor Diop
Clothed in Sunny Finery, Okayama, 2018 © Keijiro Kai
K-01 (Irish series), 2018 © Eamonn Doyle
feminist, 2021, Abidjan © Laetitia Ky
My Parents–Stigmata © Liu Hsing-Yu

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KYOTOGRAPHIE and SIGMA are honored to be part of the Associated Program at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025, following our successful participation in 2024. This year, we are proud to present KIKUJI KAWADA: The Map / Visions of the Invisible under the curatorial direction of Sayaka Takahashi at VAGUE, Arles.
This exhibition builds upon KYOTOGRAPHIE 2024, bringing together key works by Kikuji Kawada from his iconic series — The Map, The Last Cosmology, and Los Caprichos. It offers international audiences a rare and immersive encounter with one of Japan’s most influential photographic voices.

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Humanity encompasses the diverse experiences and qualities that define us as individuals and as a collective. As we grow further as a society, how do we define humanity? Reflecting on our capacity for love, empathy, and resilience, the 2025 KYOTOGRAPHIE theme is illuminated through two distinct cultural perspectives: the Japanese and the Western, exploring the diversity of human experience. Western traditions often highlight individuality, autonomy, and the centrality of humans in the world, celebrating personal freedom and universal moral principles. In contrast, the Japanese concept of humanity is deeply relational, emphasizing harmony and interdependence, and viewing humanity as inseparable from the natural world. The lived experience is central to the works within this year’s program. Artworks created from deep emotional responses to life reflect and comment on the fabric in which each of us exist. Perhaps our shared traits and values remind us of our responsibility to nurture compassion, foster understanding and create a sense of belonging, and connection. In seeking meaning together through the power of photography we hope that it may engage people to create a shared understanding of humanity in all its complexity, inspiring greater connection and shared accountability in our ever-changing and chaotic world.

Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi
Co-founders and Co-Directors of
KYOTOGRAPHIE