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 […]

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 […]

We are pleased to announce our August 2025 special exhibition at RPS: “The 10th LIFE FRAMER Photo Prize: International Touring Exhibition.” This highly regarded international touring show introduces the current works of emerging and established photographers from around the globe. Now in its tenth year, the exhibition has toured cities such as Milan, Johannesburg, and […]