ATSUSHI FUKUSHIMA 福島あつし

Atsushi Fukushima is not your average photographer. Since graduating university in 2004, he has worked as a bento delivery driver, a farmer, and trekked the length of Japan - all while photographing the people and places he encountered.

In this exhibition, Fukushima will present a body of work made during the three years he spent working on a farm. "I naturally expected a peaceful life,'' he writes. "But the farm was a completely different world. We were constantly working to raise our labour value, pouring all our resources - money, ideas, and passion - into the work and pushing the business forward. We lived with a sense of challenge and purpose!"

This exhibition marks the project's first major presentation, as well as Fukushima's return to KYOTOGRAPHIE's main programme. In 2020, he exhibited his KG+ SELECT Award-winning project, I Deliver Bento Boxes to the Houses of Old People Living Alone. For this follow-up show, Fukushima hopes to immerse viewers into the harvests that he documented, offering further engagement through events in the venue's kitchen space.