Kyotographie International Photography Festival is an international prestigious artistic event in Kyoto, Japan. Kyotographie has attracted some 250,000 visitors from within Japan and overseas since 2013. Exhibitions are constructed in a completely unique way in Asia: they are distributed everywhere in the city, breaking with traditional standards. Here, a view on some pictures selected for this occasion.

Chikako Yamashiro / Mud man, 2016 in cooperation with AICHI TRIENNALE 2016

 Wedding ceremony, 1870’s  / Yamamoto / Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts, Photographic collections, © MNAAG

 Yan Kallen, Self / Family / Society / Nature, 2015

agnés b. Photographic Collection, Olivia Bee / Pre-Kiss, 2010

Isabel Muñoz / Istambul, Turquie, from the Mevleví series, 2008

 

Hanne van der Houde / Emmy and Ben in bed, series Emmy’s World, 2013

 TOILETPAPER: Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari

Arnold Newman / Igor Stravinsky, composer and conductor, New York, 1946 1946 / Getty Images