We are pleased to announce that Yufan Lu, an artist working between China and Finland, has been selected as the first-ever grant recipient of RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES. This year’s jury consisted of Alexa Becker, Erik Vroons, Giuseppe Oliverio, Staton Winter, and Marina Paulenka, who engaged in careful and thoughtful deliberation before selecting Lu’s project, “Return.” […]

As part of our program in December 2025, we are pleased to present Yoshikatsu Fujii’s solo exhibition “Five Before the Fall.” Fujii, working from the perspective of a third-generation A-bomb survivor (Hibakusha), has been creating the “Hiroshima Graph” series since 2015. Through this long-term project, he has revisited overlooked testimonies of history, traced the lives […]

  Ko Sasaki began this project after spending 126 days in the summer of 2022 in southern Ukraine, while the country was under Russian invasion. Living alongside both civilians and soldiers, he quietly observed the fragile threshold between daily life and war. To bring this work into being, he launched the photobook project “126 Days […]

This exhibition showcases the work of participants from the Photobook Master Class held in December 2024. Led by Dutch photobook experts Toon van der Heijden and Sandra van der Dooren, the workshop was designed to support photographers in shaping their long-term photographic projects into compelling book form. The program began with an “elevator pitch,” where […]