KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026
Daido Moriyama, Ernest Cole, Pieter Hugo
2026/4/18-2026/5/17
Venue [ Main Building（South Wing）2F ]
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KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival 2026 is here! This year’s theme is "EDGE." Three world-renowned artists, including Daido Moriyama, will gather at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art.
Photo: ©️ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Returning from 18 April to 17 May 2026, KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival will once again transform Kyoto into a city-wide event. The main program presents 14 exhibitions across 12 venues, including three newly announced locations, alongside masterclasses, portfolio reviews, and a growing number of satellite events that will take place throughout the month.
The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art will present its main program featuring three artists—Daido Moriyama, Ernest Cole, and Pieter Hugo—at the Main Building South Wing 2F.
Photo: ©️ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Information
- Period
- April 18 (Sat.) — May 17 (Sun.), 2026
- Time
- 10:00–18:00 (Last admission: 17:30)
- Venue
- Main Building（South Wing）2F
- Closed on
- Closed on Mondays, except public holidays
- Admission
Single tickets：Only available at the each venue
Daido Moriyama “A Retrospective”: ¥1,500 (Student ¥800)
Ernest Cole “THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE”: ¥1,000 ‘Student ¥500)
Pieter Hugo “What the Light Falls On”: ¥1,000 (Student ¥500)
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art 3-venue Joint Ticket: ¥3,000 (Student ¥1,500)
*All prices include tax.
*Advance tickets are not available.
*Admission is free for holders of a Physical Disability Certificate (or similar documentation) and one accompanying caregiver. Please present your certificate at the entrance.
*Students are required to present a valid student ID for discounted entry.
Please check the official website for passport tickets.
Artists Profile
Moriyama Daido
Moriyama Daido (b.1938, Osaka) started his career as an assistant to Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe before becoming a freelance photographer in 1964. He quickly gained recognition as a freelance photographer, and in 1967 he received the New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association for series such as Japan, A Photo Theater, published in Camera Mainichi magazine. Moriyama has held major exhibitions worldwide at museums including SFMoMA (1999), the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011), Tate Modern (2012) and IMS (2022). He is the recipient of the ICP Infinity Award (2012), Order of Arts and Culture from the French Government (2018), Hasselblad International Photography Award (2019), and has received international acclaim.
©️ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Ernest Cole
Ernest Cole was born in South Africa’s Transvaal in 1940 and died in New York City in 1990. During his life he was known for his monumental book: House of Bondage, published in 1967. Cole’s early work chronicled the horrors of apartheid for Drum magazine and the New York Times among other publications. In 1966 he fled South Africa and in 1968 the apartheid regime stripped him of his South African passport. Settling in North America, he concentrated on street photography but around 1972 his life fell into disarray and he ceased to work as a photographer. Having experienced periods of homelessness, Cole died aged 49 of pancreatic cancer.
Ernest Cole, Segregation signage, South Africa, 1960s. © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo (b. 1976, Johannesburg) is a photographic artist living in Cape Town. He has held major solo exhibitions at institutions such as Museu Coleção Berardo, the Hague Museum of Photography, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Fotografiska in Stockholm, and MAXXI in Rome, among many more. In 2008, Hugo received both the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award. He has since been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012, and the Prix Pictet in 2015.
Pieter Hugo, Sophie on the winter solstice, Nature’s Valley, 2020 © Pieter Hugo -
Daido Moriyama "A Retrospective"
Photo: ©️ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation KYOTOGRAPHIE will present a comprehensive survey of Moriyama’s oeuvre, adapted from a lauded retrospective curated by Thyago Nogueira at lnstituto Moreira Salles (Brazil). This new rendition is specifically curated for KYOTOGRAPHIE at the coveted Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. Nogueira is planning a special focus on the countless magazines and publications that have defined Moriyama’s artistic life: the photo essays from which many of his most iconic images originate, his contribution to the legendary Provoke magazine, and the radical proposition of his epochal photobook Farewell Photography (1972).
Photo: ©️ Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Ernest Cole "House of Bondage"
© Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos House of Bondage (1967) by Ernest Cole was one of the first publications to expose the reality of apartheid to the world. Crucially, it was the first lens into the Black experience by a Black photographer. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa for New York. He published House of Bondage the following year, and as a result was permanently banned from his country. Today, the book remains one of the most influential and profound documents of apartheid, and is credited with unmasking its true atrocities to the world. This exhibition will feature photographs, magazine covers, and personal notes written by Cole himself. It follows the structure of the photographer’s original book, divided into 15 thematic chapters. Presented in Japan for the first time, this monumental show will offer a unique opportunity to experience the unflinching honesty of Cole’s lasting legacy.
（Supported by Cheerio）（In collaboration with Magnum Photos）© Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos Pieter Hugo "What the Light Falls On"
Pieter Hugo, Sophie on the winter solstice, Nature’s Valley, 2020 © Pieter Hugo At Pieter Hugo What the Light Falls On, where Hugo’s earlier projects took the form of visual essays built around defined themes, What the Light Falls On follows a freer approach. In this work, made over the course of over two decades, portraiture, landscape and still life converge into a conversational and deeply personal reflection on lived and emotional states. A rumination on mortality is central to this body of work. What the Light Falls On begins with life and ends with death, bookmarked by a photo of his daughter’s birth, and his late father on his death bed. “It’s tied into middle age,” he stated, “getting softer both physically and emotionally, the beauty and the tragedy, the cruelty and the tenderness, these cycles of life. As the philosopher Seneca succinctly observes: ‘Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”‘
Pieter Hugo, Sophie on the winter solstice, Nature’s Valley, 2020 © Pieter Hugo
