Announcement of the jury for KG＋SELECT 2026. The jury will visit the exhibition by the 10 finalists and choose one winner of the KG＋SELECT Award.

Andréa Holzherr

Andréa Holzherr (born in 1964 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Paris as a cultural director, publicist and curator. She studied at the Ecole du Louvre Paris as well as at the Sorbonne.
She has been working since 2003 as the global cultural director and curator for Magnum Photos, Paris and is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums, cultural institutions and photo festivals. Before, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as assistant curator to the director.
Andréa Holzherr has curated numerous exhibitions, among others Bang Bang, Tatort Kunst 2012 at Haus der Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Mythos Kindheit 2010 at the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen,
the Haus für Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Elina Brotherus: The New Painting 2006 at the Finnish Museum of Photography, and Stella Polaris 2006 at Paris Photo.
In September 2013 she was the responsible curator for the 5. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg in Germany and in 2023 Ernest Cole House of Bondage in collaboration with Anne-Marie Beckmann.
Her publications include such titles as Close Enough (2024), Eve Arnold Homage (2012), Helsinki School (2005-2011), George Rodger Unterwegs (2009), Elina Brotherus (2005), as well as numerous publications in specialized contemporary photography magazines.
Andréa Holzherr is on the board of directors of the Fond de Dotation Magnum Paris as well as a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.

Thyago Nogueira

Thyago Nogueira is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, and founding editor of ZUM magazine, published by IMS. He has curated numerous exhibitions such as Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty (2025), Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle (2018-2024), Daido Moriyama: A retrospective (2022-2025), Miguel Rio Branco: Dreamt Words… (2022), William Eggleston’s The American Color (2015). He has chaired the Hasselblad Award in 2019 and contributed to numerous publications and prizes worldwide.

Yuri Yamada

Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Following studies in art history, specializes in the history of modern/contemporary photography. Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 2018, through curator of Izu Photo Museum (2014-2018). Organized the exhibition Fiona Tan: Ascent (2016), Terri Weifenbach: The May Sun (2017), Memories Penetrate the Ground and Permeate the Wind Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 18 (2021), Motohashi Seiichi and Robert Doisneau: Narrative Passages (2023), Luigi Ghirri: Infinite Landscapes (2025). Co-curated I know something about love, asian contemporary photography (2018) and life actually, the works of contemporary japanese women (2023) with KASAHARA Michiko, Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography (2021) with Natalie KING. Lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University. Experienced juror and committee member for photography awards.

Lucille Reyboz

Photographer. Born in 1973 in Lyon, France, Lucille Reyboz began her journey with photography in Africa, where she spent most of her childhood. She first came to Japan in 1999, invited by Ryuichi Sakamoto to collaborate on his opera “Life.” As a portrait photographer, Lucille Reyboz produced numerous record covers for labels such as Blue Note and Verve working with many renowned artists over her 20 years in the industry. She exhibited her work in Africa, Japan and around the world; most notably in Visa pour l’image (2001), Phillips de Pury in New York (2007), and CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo (2011). She published several books, including Batammaba by Gallimard, Belles de Bamako and Impressions du Japon with Keiichiro Hirano by Editions de la Martinière. Together with Yusuke Nakanishi, Lucille Reyboz co-founded and is the co-director of KYOTOGRAPHIE in 2013, and KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival in 2023.

Yusuke Nakanishi

Lighting Director. Yusuke Nakanishi was born in 1968 in Fukuoka, and currently lives in Kyoto. He travels the world, expressing his impressions of light and shadow from his memories. He has worked as a lighting director for music videos, feature films, stages, music concerts, fashion shows and interior designs. He also created lighting object series eatable lights and Tamashii and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, School Gallery (Paris), including Nuit Blanche in Kyoto. He co-founded KYOTOGRAPHIE with Lucille Reyboz in 2013 and is the co-director. In Autumn 2022, he was involved in the creative direction for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition LIGHT OF FLOWERS, which was held on the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine and the Tadasunomori Forest. In 2023, he co-founded KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival with Lucille Reyboz.

KG＋SELECT Award

10 artists will be selected from among the applicants and invited to exhibit their works at an assigned venue (location to be announced later). The selected artists will each receive a grant of ¥200,000 to help cover the costs of producing their works. A catalog of the exhibited artworks will be produced and the exhibition will be widely publicized via various media in Japan and abroad. 
The judges for KG＋SELECT 2026 will visit the exhibits and select one Award winner. The winner will receive a grant of ¥500,000 to support for create of new work and to produce an exhibition for the official program of next year’s KYOTOGRAPHIE 2027.

KG＋SELECT Group Exhibition
Period: 2026.4.18 Sat.—5.17 Sun.
Admission FREE