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KYOTOGRAPHIE
International Photography Festival, 2021
1st. PRESS RELEASE
The 9th edition of the KYOTOGRAPHIE International
Photography Festival will be held from September 18th
– October 17th, 2021, presenting over 14 exhibitions in
iconic Kyoto venues.
The KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival isheld annually over four weeks in a style that is unique in
Asia. Exhibitions are staged creatively in various traditionaland contemporary settings with original scenography. The
festival creates opportunities, bringing people togetherof all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. Now recognized
as one of the world’s leading photography events,
KYOTOGRAPHIE has attracted some 1,000,000 visitorsfrom within Japan and overseas since 2013.
Our theme for 2021 is “ECHO.”

Theme of 2021
© Ngadi Smart

In 2021, we experienced the second year of the COVID-19
pandemic, this coincides with the 10th anniversary of
Outlinethe 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and the

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021

Fukushima nuclear disaster. These tragic events and ourInternational Photography Festival 2021

Dates: 2021. 9. 18. Sat. – 10. 17. Sun.
Press Preview: 2021. 09.17. Fri.
Organizer: KYOTOGRAPHIE
Co-organizers: Kyoto City, Kyoto Municipal Board of
Education
Premium Sponsor: CHANEL G.K.
Sponsors: Ruinart (MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K.),
MATSUSHIMA HOLDINGS CO.,LTD.,OMRON Corporation, Hearst Fujingaho Co., Ltd.,agnès b., KERING, LOEWE ,Cheerio Corporation Co. LTD. etc.

personal circumstances have created distinctive echos in
our lives.
With our present moment assembled from fragments
both understood and imposed, the past decade has
been a learning experience for the individual and thehuman species. Considering that life and memory mirror
each other, photography becomes the expression that
ultimately echoes our times. For the 9th edition, we invite
artists using a variety of mediums to share their intimate
reflections.
We hope sharing these creations and remembering the*All the information (program, sponsors, venues…) announced for
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021 are confirmed up to June 23rd, 2021.
More info coming soon!

stories connected to them will pay tribute to the dignity

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of those represented and share our belief in the power of
Humanity.

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Main Programs
Erwin Olaf
The Museum of Kyoto Annex
Co-organizer: Kyoto Prefecture[L] Erwin Olaf, Im Wald, Porträt XII, 2020
[R] Erwin Olaf, Im Wald, Porträt VII, 2020
©︎ Erwin Olaf

RongRong&inri"Jifei Kyoto"

RongRong&inri, from the series of Jifei Kyoto, 2015–2021©️ RongRong&inri

MIROIRS - Manga meets CHANEL
Collaboration with
Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu
presented by CHANEL NEXUS HALL
Kondaya Genbei Chikuin-no-Ma
supported by SHUEISHA Inc.

Born in 1959 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Erwin Olaf is an internationaly exhibiting artist whose diverse practice centersaround society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, andthe LGBTQ+ community. In 2019 Olaf became a Knight of the Order of the Lion of
the Netherlands after 500 works from his oeuvre were added to the collection of
the Rijksmuseum.
This KYOTOGRAPHIE exhibition will feature the latest work made in 2020. Mainly
consisting of two major series - the portraits and scenery photography from “Im
Wald (in the forest)”, the video and the photography work from “April Fool”. In theseries “Im Wald”, a number of photographs are inspired by Romantic paintingsfrom the 19th century, created in Northern Europe, depicting the indifferent powerof nature, the human arrogance towards that same nature and the endless needfor displacements, with the enormous consequences thereof. In “April Fool”, Olaf
himself became a model being watched by cameras as if it’s a self documentary or
a projection of a human being’s daily life during the self-quarantine in a pandemiccrisis. In addition to that, a slideshow of the selected representative works over theyears will be also presented.

Chinese photographic art pioneer RongRong (born in 1968) andJapanese photographer inri (born in 1973) teamed up in Beijing in2000 as “RongRong&inri,” and have since played a leading role inphotographic expression in China. In 2007, the pair established China's
first contemporary photography center, “Three Shadows Photography Art
Centre,” in Caochangdi in Beijing. With the aim of becoming a platform
for the discovery, dissemination, and development of contemporary
photographic art in China, the center holds a variety of exhibitions andprograms throughout the year.
RongRong&inri say that since the creation of “Tsumari Monogatari”(Tsumari Story) in 2012–2014, which was influenced by the overwhelming
water cycle in the primeval nature of Niigata, the existence of “life-giving
water” has flowed at the foundation of their work.
In 2015 they moved to Kyoto. Their new work was born from the ideathat the water cycle has strongly influenced the basic cultural landscapeof Kyoto, which has produced in Japan’s millennial capital multi-layered
scenery that combines history, culture, and topography.

A collaborative exhibition by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu, the author and theillustrator of the popular manga series “The Promised Neverland,” serialized in
Weekly Shonen Jump (published by Shueisha), and CHANEL.
The manga “miroirs,” which was inspired by the CHANEL brand, was publishedby Shueisha Jump Comics this spring. In this exhibition, scenes from “miroirs”
are exhibited alongside precious works from the CHANEL collection, including
photos by famous photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Frank Horvat, Man
Ray, Berenice Abbott, and Cecil Beaton.
Bringing together the message contained in the manga and the spirit of
CHANEL, the source of its inspiration, this exhibition allows viewers to relive
era-transcending encounters between the artists and CHANEL.

©KAIU SHIRAI,POSUKA DEMIZU/SHUEISHADavid Shrigley
presented by Ruinart
ASPHODELDavid Shrigley, untitled, 2019

David Shrigley is a British artist whose rudimentary but unmistakable line isused to observe his surroundings with incomparable irony, often accompanied
by an absurd and irreverent sentence to challenge us and get our attention.
Humour—be it naive or noir—is his instrument of choice and wielded with great
precision. While drawing is at the center of his practice, the artist also works
across an extensive range of media including sculpture, large-scale installation,
animation, painting, photography and music.
Each year, artists receive carte blanche to express their vision of the Maison
Ruinart, to share its heritage, savoir-faire and the excellence of its cuvées.
His mischievous art sheds a new light on the vineyard, its heritage andcraftsmanship. Shrigley’s sharp eye studies the curious and well-kept secretsof champagne making. Shrigley’s artworks act as a bubbly eye-opener to theenvironmental concerns that inspire the first Champagne house.

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Yingfei Liang
KG+ Select 2020 Award Winner
Sfera

Born in Guangzhou, China. In 2015, Liang joined the Beijing-based media group Caixin
Media. As a photojournalist, she covers spot news in China and reports on social
minorities. Since 2018, she has been actively involved in the Magnum Foundation’s“Photography Expanded” documentary mentorship program. Her multimedia project"Beneath the Scars," which traces the traumatic memories and lives of survivors of sexual
violence, reveals the truth of the damage caused by sexual violence through a mixture ofthird-person and first-person spoken accounts. "Beneath the Scars" received the "KG +Award 2020" Grand Prix, and for KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021 will be re-edited and shown using
a new approach. In May 2020, Liang traveled to Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19
pandemic, to cover the stories of those who have lost family members to the virus. The
short film she made, called “Good Morning, My Wife in Heaven,” has won the third prize
winner in the Short category of the 2021 Digital Storytelling Contest.

Yingfei Liang, Beneath the Scars Part II , 4, 2018
©︎ Yingfei Liang

Women Artists from the MEP Studio:
New perspectives in film
and photography from France
supported by Kering’s Women In Motion
Curator: Simon Baker
HOSOO GALLERY

Marguerite Bornhauser, Sans titre , from the series "Moisson Rouge"© Marguerite Bornhauser

Ngadi Smart"Manifold"supported by Cheerio Corporation Co. LTD.
flying tiger copenhagen Kyoto Kawaramachi
Store 3F
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Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade
DELTA/KYOTOGRAPHIE Permament Space

Ngadi Smart, The Faces of Abissa, 2016

Specially designed for KYOTOGRAPHIE, as part of the “ECHO” season, this exhibition
brings together the works of five young French female artists selected by MEP, (Maison
Européenne de la Photographie) in Paris, in order to reveal the current richness, diversity
and originality of emerging French photography and lens-based practices at the crossroadsof genres and disciplines. Marguerite Bornhauser, Manon Lanjouère, Adèle Gratacosde Volder and the duo Clothilde Matta & Nina Cholet embody a vibrant artistic scene inFrance whose practices and aesthetics are characterized by hybridity of the images anda new confidence about approaches to the photographic and filmic image. These multifaceted talents have in common a keen sense of narrative and a taste for blurring thelines between fictions and the realities from which they are drawn.
Supporting emerging talents is a vital part of the MEP’s mission. In 2018, it createdthe Studio a new space dedicated to first solo shows of emerging artists committed inparticular to strengthening the visibility of young women artists.
──This exhibition is supported by Women In Motion , a Kering program that shines a light on
the talent of women in the fields of arts and culture. Since 2015, Women In Motion has
been a platform of choice for helping to change mindsets and reflect on women’s place
and recognition across artistic fields.

Ngadi Smart is a Sierra Leonean visual artist and designer based between London, U.K
and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Her practice comprises illustration, photography, and design.
She also works as a mixed media artist, primarily in the form of collage art.
In her Illustration work, she is motivated by the representation of minorities, highlighting
cultural identity and racial discrimination, as well as themes on Feminism and genderroles. She deconstructs society's mainstream preconceived views of what the definitionsof "normal", "beautiful", and "right" are.
She will exhibit the series of "Documentary | The Faces of Abissa” (2016), “The Queens ofBabi” (2020), "Metamorphosis Series" (2020) , her latest photo collage series.
This year we are inviting the artist Ngadi Smart to collaborate with our local community in
the Demachi Masugata Shopping Arcade, Kyoto. She will create unique work that echoes
the historical and contemporary images of the community.

© Ngadi SmartThomas Dhellemmes
Ryosokuin Temple (Kennin-ji Temple)

Thomas Dhellemmes, Légumineux, solanum lycopersicum - tomato, 2009

Born in 1963 in France, Thomas Dhellemmes lives and works in Paris.
Thomas Dhellemmes has been passionate about photography since his childhood.
After studying visual arts, he went to live in the Cape Verde Islands. When he moved backto Paris, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to photography. He developed personalartistic projects while earning a living by doing photography commissions (lifestyle,gastronomy, luxury...) with Atelier Mai 98, the creative photographic studio he founded.
Thomas Dhellemmes looks at the world with his Polaroid camera. His Légumineux series,
begun in September 2009, focuses on the rare and forgotten vegetables growing in the
Potager du Roi (King’s Vegetable garden), the Chateau de Versailles’ historical garden.
Thanks to their cultivation - a far cry from industrial standards - these forgotten vegetables
with their imperfect shapes, rough look and unique character; bear witness to the richness
and diversity of living things. They are gardiens of an original nature that contrasts withtoday’s system of intensive cultivation that often results in uniform, tasteless vegetables.
Because of their uniqueness and fragility, they provide us with a wise, important message.

©Thomas Dhellemmes

Yuna Yagi
Ryosokuin Temple (Kennin-ji Temple)

Yuna Yagi, Seeds on Mr. Iwasaki’s palm, 2017©︎ Yuna Yagi

Visual composite artist Yuna Yagi graduated with a degree in Architecture from Parsons
School of Design, in New York, in 2004. After working in Canada, New York, and Berlin, she
is now based in Kyoto. She pursues the truth of things through the experience of “seeing,”
presenting works and installations that make use of the sense of sight and phenomena
at home and overseas. She won the KYOTOGRAPHIE Hasselblad International Portfolio
Review Prize in 2016. She exhibited at the international contemporary photo art fair
FOTOFEVER in Paris in 2017 as an invited artist, and was nominated for the FOTOFEVER
2019 Eberhard Award.
Yagi focused on the activities of Mr. Masatoshi Iwasaki, a "seed farmer" who has been
engaged in organic farming and seed production for more than 30 years, working topreserve and protect native vegetable seeds in Unzen City, Nagasaki Prefecture, andcaptured the vitality of the vegetables grown by Mr. Iwasaki in her photographs. We see“the whole life of the vegetables,” the work of maintaining the seeds, and the natural
fertility of Unzen. The life force of the vegetables, reflected through Yagi's earnest eyes,
raises questions about various issues the world faces today, such as the effects of climatechange and adherence to market principles.

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Echo of 2011: 5 Exhibitions
Nijo-jo Castle Ninomaru Palace Daidokoro Kitchen,
Okiyodokoro Kitchen and Tonan Sumi-yagura (Southeast Watchtower)

Richard Collasse“The Wave ─ In Memoriam”"The month of May approaching, somebody walked into this chaos and came toplant a carp in its ruins. She swells in the wind, lonely and courageous, and shelaunches a message to us: you have to live, live so the memory of the ones who
have been swallowed up does not perish in turn."

Chikuunsai IV Tanabe
supported by LOEWE

Chikuunsai IV Tanabe, CONNECTION- INFINITY, Art KYOTO 2020,
Kyoto National Museum, Japan
Photo by Tadayuki Minamoto

Atsunobu Katagiri"Sacrifice"Atsunobu Katagiri, Sarcrifice, 2014
©️ Atsunobu Katagiri

Damien Jalet & JR
"Brise-Lames"
Choreography: Damien Jalet
Set and costumes: JR
Associate choreographer:
Aimilios Arapoglou
Live music and original composition:
Koki Nakano
Opéra de Paris dancers:
Letizia Galloni, Alexandre Gasse,
Takeru Coste, Heloise Bourdon,
Pablo Legasa, Juliette Hilaire,
Hohyun Kang, Clémence Gross,
Jeremy Loup Quer, Appoline Anquetil
Lights: Fabiana Piccioli

Kazuma Obara"Fill In the Blanks"
Curator: Marina Amada

Kazuma Obara, no title, 2012©️ Kazuma Obara

Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in
2011. These events and the subsequent nuclear disaster are still affecting Japan today. People
are struggling to recover and many of the challenges they faced are unabating. These five
exhibitions share some of the important stories about and coming from this tragedy.
Born in France in 1953. Chairman of the Board of CHANEL Japan. Since first coming
to Japan in 1971, Richard Collasse has become intimately familiar with Japaneseculture, publishing six novels in Japan and five in France. In addition to creating his own
photographic works, he has contributed to the development of photographic culture inmany ways, including supporting KYOTOGRAPHIE from its inception and creating an art
space CHANEL’s main building in Tokyo to hold photography-related programs.
One month after the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, he visited Tohoku
and voluntarily started a make-up service for women called "Smile in Tohoku." Collasse
always carries a camera with him, and he captured the wasteland and sorrow of the
Tohoku coastal areas. In March 2012 he published the novel Waves , a testimonial about
the trials of the Tohoku residents based on photographs he took and stories he was told
by people at the scene of the disaster. This exhibition is a fusion of Collasse’s writing andphotography.
Born in Sakai, Osaka, the second son of third-generation bamboo artist Tanabe
Chikuunsai. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Aesthetics, Tokyo
University of the Arts, Chikuunsai returned to his parents’ home in Sakai where heworked hard to master bamboo arts under his father Chikuunsai. In 2001, he was invited
to exhibit his works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show in the United States.
He subsequently held exhibitions around the world, including at Boston’s Museum ofFine Arts, the British Museum, the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts in France, and theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Based on the idea that "tradition is a challenge," he continues to produce works withtraditional objects such as flower basket and tea utensils while also creating installations
using bamboo and contemporary objects. His installations in exhibition spaces throughout
the world open up new possibilities for bamboo arts.
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LOEWE’s identity is reflected in their commitment to support contemporary art, craft andculture around the world. In honoring Chikuunsai’s unique approach to art, LOEWE is
supporting his installation in KYOTOGRAPHIE.
Born in Osaka in 1973. Ikebana artist. In 1997, at the age of twenty-four, Katagiri became
head of the long-established Misasagi School of ikebana in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.
Katagiri's style ranges from traditional ikebana to contemporary artistic approaches, andhe collaborates with artists from many different fields.
In 2013-14, Katagiri moved for a year to Minami-Soma in Fukushima Prefecture, where hewalked in places deeply scarred by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, singlemindedly creating flower arrangement from what he found growing there. These he turned
into a photo book called "Sacrifice—The Ikebana of Regeneration, Offered to the Future."
In the winter of 2020 he returned to Fukushima to photograph pillars of a barn that had
been chewed on by cows left behind to starve to death when their owner was forced toevacuate due to the nuclear accident. Photographs from this series and from “Sacrifice”
will be exhibited in KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021, along with his ikebana flower arrangements.
Damien Jalet is a world-class choreographer whose activities go beyond the realm ofdance to include visual arts, music, film, theater, and fashion. His work "VESSEL," createdin collaboration with Kohei Nawa, caused sensation when it premiered in Japan in 2016,
and since has been performed all over the world. In 2020, with the novel coronavirus
rampant, Jalet was invited by the Paris Opera. At this occasion he decided to collaborate
with artist JR, pianist and composer Koki Nakano, along with dancer Aimilios Arapoglou
to perform "Brise-Lames," a piece for nine dancers. The premiere was canceled due tothe COVID lockdown but the performance happened without audience and was filmed by
Louise Narboni in close collaboration with Jalet. This film, "Brise-Lames” will be screened
and in addition some pictures of the performance by JR will be exhibited.
JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are nottypical museum visitors, from the suburbs of Paris to the slums of Brazil to the streets of
New York, pasting huge portraits of anonymous people, from Kibera to Istanbul, from Los
Angeles to Shanghai. In 2011 he received the TED Prize, after which he launched Inside
Out, an international participatory art project that allows people worldwide to get their
picture taken and paste it to support an idea and share their experience – as of March
2021, over 420,000 people from more than 138 countries have participated, through mailor gigantic photobooths.
Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1985. Photographer and journalist. Obara graduated inphotojournalism from University of the Arts, London. Following the Great East Japan
earthquake in March 2011, he quit his job at a leasing company and began photographingareas affected by the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. He
photographed the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Power Plant from the inside, culminatingin the publication of the photobook Reset: Beyond Fukushima (Zürich: Lars Müller
Publishers, 2012), which documented the Great East Japan earthquake and workers at
the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
He has won numerous international awards, including the World Press Photo Award.
In 2020, with a grant from the National Geographic Society of the United States. He
started to document the efforts of nurses and caregivers working on the front lines of thecorona pandemic. In KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021, two series will be exhibited, one that follows
Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant workers in charge of decommissioning the plant,
and the other focusing on medical and long-term care workers during the COVID-19
pandemic.

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Associated Program
LES DRÔLESSES by agnès b.
BAL LAB (Kyoto BAL 4F)(until 2021.11.28 Sun. )From May 28 to July 31 2021, the Gallery MAGNIN-A will present Les
Drôlesses, a series of photographs taken by agnès b., in the spring of2020 during confinement. These images stage two portraits of Claire
Tabouret in the springtime decor of agnès's garden dressed in creations from her personal wardrobe. Throughout the 80 images, Les
Drôlesses tells the story of the mischievous and timeless agnès. It tells
us about her childhood, the relationship between the designer and theartists and years of creation.
This show will exhibit as KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021 Associated Program.

Série Les Drôlesses , 2020
Blouson cuir , 1994, Jupe en voile de lin , 2011, Chemise-cravate , 2011
© agnès b. 2021

Collaboration with
Nara International Film Festival
supported by agnès b.

In 2021, KYOTOGRAPHIE will collaborate with the NARA INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL and Naomi Kawase.
A selection of movies produced by Narrative and directed by Naomi Kawase
will be screened throughout the festival resonating with KYOTOGRAPHIE's
theme.

KYOTOGRAPHIE Crowdfunding in 2021

KYOTOGRAPHIE has continued thanks to the support and cooperation ofnumerous people, will undertake a crowdfunding campaign for the 2021
edition in order to further grow as a platform for thinking about society
through photography.

KG ＋Open recruitment art festival to
discover and support promising
photographers and curators
OutlineKG+ KYOTOGRAPHIE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVALSATELLITE EVENT

Dates: 2021. 9. 17. Fri. – 10. 17. Sun.

Organizer: KYOTOGRAPHIE
Co-organizers:
Kyoto City / Kyoto Municipal Board of Education
Main sponsors: Grand Marble Corporation and SIGMA Corporation
Special sponsor: Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank

KG + SELECT

Nara International Film Festival began in 2010 with film creator Naomi
Kawase as executive director. In addition to holding the International Film
Festival once every two years, number of other projects are held, including
making films set in Nara with young directors from Japan and abroad,workshops for children and international students, and a moving movie
theater in Nara City called Nara Cinémathèque.

Supporting the continuation of the International Photography Festival
KYOTOGRAPHIE 2021 (project overview)・Target amount: 10 million yen ※ All-or-nothing format
If we fail to reach the target amount, all donated funds will be returned tobackers.
・Campaign period: From July 1, 2021 (Thursday) to August 19, 2021 (Thursday),until around 23:00
Please visit the KYOTOGRAPHIE crowdfunding project website, here:
https://readyfor.jp/projects/kyotographie2021

Started in 2013, KG+ is an open-entry art festival dedicated to discoveringand fostering talent among photographers, curators and gallerists alike.
In 2021, our eighth annual edition, we are making various changes inprocedures to insure a more fair and transparent festival for all. We
offer an exhibition platform for ambitious talents working in all forms ofphotography—a launch pad for Japanese artists seeking worldwide attention
and for foreign artists wanting entry to Japan.
As a satellite of the main invitational KYOTOGRAPHIE International
Photography Festival held concurrently each spring in Kyoto, KG+ affords
an ideal forum for meeting and sharing information with the international
photographic arts community, along with a participatory public outreachenvironment for visitors and local citizens. Presented citywide at a varietyof venues, including the former Kakuchi elementary school, heritage
houses and traditional shops, temples and historic sites, as well as “whitecube” galleries. This format presents the possibilities for diverse creative
expressions, far greater than with more conventional visual arts festivals.

KG+ Square by Chushin

In the new program “KG + SELECT,” which originated as part of 2019 KG +, nine

(Former Welfare Facility of Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank)

artists will be chosen from applicants by an internationally active judging committee,

KG ＋ Information Center ＆Artists Shopand are given production subsidies to create and display works in the classrooms offormer Kakuchi Elementary School.
From these nine exhibits, one will be selected winner of the KG ＋ AWARD2021 GrandPrix, becoming one of the official exhibitions of the 2022 KYOTOGRAPHIE program.
9. 17. Fri. – 9.20. Mon.

Book Fair

9. 17. Fri. – 10.17. Sun.

Kids Program

The information center for this years festival will be set
up at the former Shichijo Karasuma branch of Kyoto
Chuo Shinkin Bank. A selection of pieces and photobooks by select artists exhibiting at more than 30 KG+
exhibition sites scattered throughout the city will beavailalbe for purchase, and visitors to the information
center will also be able to view a special photography
exhibit featuring the 80-year history of Kyoto Chuo
Shinkin Bank.