W e are pleased to announce an in-person seminar for teachers in charge of high school photography clubs, to be held in Higashikawa, “The Town of Photography.” (An archived video of the seminar will be made available at a later date.) What is the High School Photography Club Training Program? This seminar is organized by the Shashin Koshien Executive Committee (All Japan High School Photo Contest Executive Committee)  to support better image-making and to help boost students’...

I will appear on “Shashinshu no Yoru — Kotaro Iizawa Online Photobook Gallery,” presented by Local Knowledge. This online program features photography critic Kotaro Iizawa introducing notable photobooks via livestream. Beginning with the first guest, Ryudai Takano, the series now reaches its seventh edition, where my book Les Deux Crépuscules/ 海辺のカノン  (published by Case Publishing last year) will be introduced. Viewers can look through the work together with us on Zoom while I discuss various...

My series “PORTRAITS,”  which photographs beach-borne debris, has been selected for the Longlist of the FORM Photo Award 2025 , an international photography prize organized by FORM Gallery  (based in France and Ukraine). FORM Photo Award 2025 — Longlist About the award The prize is supported by Scope Miami Beach 2025 , Picter , photo basel , and FORM Magazine . The jury includes Darius Himes (International Head of Photographs, Christie’s)  and Virginia Damtsa (co-founder of Riflemaker;...