Highlights of this year’s international photography festival in Kyoto include Linder Sterling’s exclamatory collages, a retrospective of groundbreaking Daido Moriyama and a journey though apartheid South Africa with Ernest Cole
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.
More than 200 images, 400 magazines and 100 books cover the walls and tables of Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective, and it still feels like it’s only scratching the surface of this photographer’s extraordinarily prolific career.
Born in 1938, Moriyama was part of a groundbreaking generation of postwar photographers whose work appeared in magazines and later became defined by a look known as are-bure-boke (rough, blurred, out-of-focus). He is a photographer who has constantly questioned the meaning of photography and how it can be used. Now in his 80s he still photographs every day and publishes Record magazine.
