The Kyotographie international photography festival is being held in Kyoto, featuring work by photographers from Japan and the rest of the world at 15 venues, including a temple and historical buildings that are not ordinarily open to the public.
This is the sixth edition of the festival and the theme this year is "Up," in the hope that everyone will look up when the world faces various problems. The festival has been held every year since 2013, with a total of about 380,000 people attending so far.
One of the venues is a former ice factory's machine room, next to the Kyoto City Central Wholesale Market. The pictures on display here include the "Drowning World" series by Gideon Mendel, a photographer born in South Africa who takes pictures of floods around the world.
"I feel there is a special meaning in displaying photographs of floods that are related to global warming at this factory, where energy was used to turn water into ice," Mendel said.
The festival will run through May 13. Entry fees range from free to 1,200, yen depending on the venue. Passport tickets for entry to all the exhibitions are also on sale.
As a related program, KG+, an exhibition of selected works by up-and-coming photographers, is also being held at various places in the city.
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