RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES is currently closed. The next opening will be on 9/16-24, 2023. Please note the opening schedule. Kazuhiko Matsumura, a Kyoto-based photojournalist who has covered dementia for many years, will hold a photo exhibition entitled “Weaving the Heartstrings” at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES from September 16 to 24 to coincide with World Alzheimer’s Day […]

Fuminori Sato participated in the Photobook Master Class workshop held in 2018 to work on this project. The Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011. A powerful earthquake and Tsunami blasted the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company, resulting in a catastrophic accident. Dangerous amounts of radioactive materials released […]

And finally, today is really the last day of the exhibition! Kyotographie Main Program Kazuhiko Matsumura’s “Heartstrings” Exhibition. Newspapers distributed at the KYOTOGRAPHIE Main Program Kazuhiko Matsumura “Heartstrings” Exhibition are free. The main purpose is to help people understand the 50-year history of dementia in Japan, which could not be conveyed only in the exhibition. […]

KYOTOGRAPHIE opens on April 14, 2023. In 2022, RPS Kyoto Branch PAPEROLES’ chief and photojounalist Matsumura was awarded the KG+ Select Grand Prix and I was appointed to curate his exhibition “Hearstrings” as the main program of KYOTOGRAPHIE this year. As the exhibition draws to a close, I would like to share with you a […]