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HUMANITY 2O25 O4.12 SAT ― O5.11 SUN

KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival | 京都国際写真祭

  • 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

  • ©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • Chichén Itzá, Mexico, 2002 © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • © Eric Poitevin

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • © Mao Ishikawa

  • ©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • © Adam Rouhana

  • ©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • * This image represents work in progress ©︎ Tamaki Yoshida

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • Being There_52-V1, 2024, The Anonymous Project © Lee Shulman & Omar Victor Diop

  • ©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • Clothed in Sunny Finery, Okayama, 2018 © Keijiro Kai

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • K-01 (Irish series), 2018 © Eamonn Doyle

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • feminist, 2021, Abidjan © Laetitia Ky

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • ©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

  • My Parents–Stigmata © Liu Hsing-Yu

  • ©︎ Kenryou Gu-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025

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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

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