Iizawa Kōtarō｜Photo Walk 12—From Eye to Eye (March 2026–May 2026)
Iizawa Kōtarō reviews Japanese and international photography exhibitions and photobooks from March to May 2026.Summary
This article is the twelfth installment of Iizawa Kōtarō’s “Photo Walk” series, reviewing photography exhibitions and photobooks visited between March and May 2026. It covers a wide range of shows, including Kai Fusa Yoshio’s Kyoto photographs, Hiromi Nakashima’s photobook “Haru no Taki ni Sasagu,” Masafumi Sanai’s “Raisha” at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Keiko Nomura’s Okinawa-focused “Ryūgū,” and exhibitions by Yumiko Utsu, Osamu Kanemura, Chihiro Kihara, Riko Okaniwa, Urma Takezawa, Satori Shibata, Shunpei Osugi, Karen Sato, Mitsuru Katsumoto, and Naotaka Hirota. Iizawa also discusses W. Eugene Smith’s New York loft-era photographs at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and a Musashino-themed collection exhibition at the Setagaya Art Museum. Across the reviews, he emphasizes how each photographer confronts subjects such as place, memory, gender, religion, documentary afterlives, urban and natural landscapes, and the material nature of photographic images. The article opens with concern that photography exhibitions attract relatively few visitors, but the reviews show a rich and varied field of contemporary photographic practice.
(Source：artscape)