Photoreporter Kazuhiko Matsumura spent five years interviewing people with Alzheimer’s, their families and their inner circles for his project Heartstrings, exhibited with great delicacy at Hachiku-an, former Kawasaki residence in Kyoto. Photo by Kenryou Gu courtesy Kyotography
For his 11e edition, the Kyoto photo festival demonstrates the originality of its literally Haute Couture formula and confirms the spectacular success of its Franco-Japanese founders, Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi.
Kyotographie is a small photo festival miracle created against adversity in 2013 by two artists, two intrepid, the French Lucille Reyboz and the Japanese Yusuke Nakanishi at the heart of Kyoto’s heritage. In 2013, there were only a handful of volunteers – the few artists, their exhibition curators and a small tight-knit, predominantly Japanese team – to bring this event to life in Japan’s first imperial city and rekindle hope after Fukushima. The mood was to community full of ideal. The regime, that of the means at hand, like a theater troupe that wants to create at all costs.
Six months before her tragic end on December 11, 2013, the photographer Kate Berrythe eldest daughter of Jane Birkinmade the trip to Kyoto in April 2013. This tall, delicate, generous woman, almost the reserved copy of her mother, was the first to exhibit her sensitive portraits of her dear family, in the round and white silo of the Kondaya Genbei Kurogura where all the story…
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