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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Karin Andreasson

‘Sensitive, sexy and surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie festival

The Space Between Love and Comfort, 2025
The Space Between Love and Comfort, 2025. Photograph: © Thandiwe Muriu, Courtesy 193 Gallery

Kyotographie is Japan’s foremost festival of international photography. Held each spring since 2013, each edition has a different theme – and this year it is “Edge”.

It is a broad enough theme to allow for some freedom in the curation while evoking a sense of tension across the 14 exhibitions in the main Kyotographie festival.

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