How do you photograph history that people would rather forget, or grief that has no shape? Two Japanese photographers give very different answers

A dreamlike night landscape featuring a gravel path leading toward blooming cherry blossoms, obscured by ethereal blue and green light flares and motion blur.

There's a detail worth noting in the press materials for Japan House London's debut photography exhibition. The show, which opens on June 03, was originally titled Invisible [インヴィジブル].

It was later renamed Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai, presumably for clarity. But something was lost in the retitling: the original gets closer to what both photographers are actually doing. Neither is really interested in what's in front of the lens; both are focused on what isn't.