2026.6.3—2026.8.30

Hiroshi Yamauchi, KYOTOGRAPHIE Inside-Out 2026

As the first quarter of the 21st century comes to a close, we inhabit a world shaped by overlapping crises, accelerating change, and increasingly fragmented perspectives. Understanding our place within it has become ever more complex.

In such a world, paying attention to how others see becomes increasingly important. Photography has long been a means of observing the world. Yet it also reveals how differently that world is experienced by different people. Every image is shaped by a particular way of seeing.

Throughout KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026, visitors encountered works that explored the festival theme, EDGE. Rather than focusing on the artworks themselves, this exhibition turns its attention to those who came to see them.

Gathered here are traces of countless individual encounters. Seen together, they form a portrait not of a single audience, but of many perspectives coexisting within the same space. They remind us that understanding often emerges not from the centre, where consensus is assumed, but from the edges, where different experiences, viewpoints and ways of seeing meet.

At a time when societies are increasingly fragmented, these moments of attention, curiosity and exchange show how new questions emerge, where certainties become less fixed, and where different possibilities briefly come into view.

▍Hiroshi Yamauchi
Born in 1974 in Osaka, Japan. Hiroshi started his photographic career at Anchorage Daily News in Alaska in 1998. Since his return to Japan in 2006, Yamauchi has been a freelance photographer. Yamauchi works regularly with international and Japanese domestic publications. Yamauchi has been a staff member of KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival since 2017.

▍About the exhibition
Hiroshi Yamauchi“KYOTOGRAPHIE Inside-Out 2026”
June 3 (Wednesday)- August 30(Sunday), 2026
Close: Monday and TuesdayHours: 11:00-18:00 (until 21:00 on Friday and Saturday)
Venue: DELTA/KYOTOGRAPHIE Permanent Space
（62 Sanei-cho, Teramachi Higashi-iru, Masugata-dori, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-0826)