Cross Talk #2: Eriko Koga & Atsushi Fukushima – Celebrating the Publication of KG+ SELECT 10 YEARS, 10 ARTISTS

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the KG+ SELECT Award, we will host a special cross talk event featuring past award winners. The speakers will reflect on their journey from receiving the KG+ Award to exhibiting at KYOTOGRAPHIE, and share insights into their current practices as photographers.

If you would like to attend, please come to the 1st floor reception of TIME’S 15 minutes before the event begins.
A book signing session by the artists will follow the event.

Speakers

Eriko Koga (KG+ AWARD 2015 Winner)
Photographer. Born in 1980 in Fukuoka City, Japan. Graduated from Sophia University with a degree in French literature. Koga continues to create photographic works through her unique perspective, exploring themes such as life and death, the sacred and the secular, love, and sorrow as they manifest in everyday life.
Her main publications include Asakusa Zenzai (Seigensha, 2011), Hitoyama (Akakasha, 2015), TRYADHVAN (Akakasha, 2016), and BELL (Akakasha, 2020).
She has received numerous awards, including the Photo Documentary NIPPON (2004), the Sagamihara Newcomer Encouragement Award (2012), the KG+ AWARD (2015), and the Prix Virginia Jury’s Choice (2018). Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries, museums, and photo festivals in Japan and abroad, and is held in the collections of institutions including the National Library of France and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.

Atsushi Fukushima (KG+ SELECT Award 2019 Winner)
Guided by the belief that “human life is powerful and beautiful,” Fukushima creates photographic works rooted in lived experience.
By entering spaces where people live and work, he expresses what he has felt and learned there—sensations and thoughts that can only be discovered on-site—through both photography and text.
While working for 10 years as a delivery person for a bento service for the elderly, he photographed the lives of the solitary seniors he served. He also worked as a farmer for five years, capturing the intense summer harvest season.
Fukushima has launched the ZIPANGU Project, in which he walks across the Japanese archipelago photographing the lives of people he meets along the way. To date, he has completed the project three times.