Tokyo Before/After

This exhibition, created on the occasion of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, features a selection of approximately 80 works, in which works by photographers who had captured images of Tokyo in the 1930s-1940s are presented in juxtaposition with those taken after 2010.
We hope that the works of the Japanese photographers in this exhibition, through their specific imagery, will serve to encourage a deeper understanding of Tokyo as a vast city of many different faces.

Exhibition Curator
Kotaro Iizawa (photography critic)

Artists
Before: KOGA (Light Pictures), NIPPON, Kineo Kuwabara
After: Nobuyoshi Araki, Mika Ninagawa, Motoyuki Daifu, SATO Shintaro, Shinya Arimoto,
Natsumi Hayashi, Kenta Cobayashi, Daido Moriyama

Dates

2027 first semester Mauritius*TBC

2026 first semester India*TBC

2026 first semester Myanmar*TBC

February 26 - March 18, 2026
Nepal Art Council (Kathmandu, Nepal)

December 5, 2025 - January 17, 2026
Kyungpook National Univertsity Art Museum (Daegu, Korea)

November 8 - 29, 2025
CHUNGMU ARTS CENTER (Seoul, Korea)

September 8 - 28, 2025
Cemara 6 Galeri - Toeti Heraty Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia)

May 16 - July 31, 2025
Estancia Mall (Manila, Philippines)

March 21 - April 20, 2025
SOSORO Museum（Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

January 11 - February 23, 2025
GMBB（Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

September 17 - October 10, 2024
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts in the name of Gapar Aytiev（Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic)

See past exhibition schedule

Photo of KOGA (Light Pictures)
KOGA (Light Pictures), 1932
Photo of NIPPON
NIPPON, 1938
Photo of Nobuyoshi Araki's work
Nobuyoshi Araki, Tombeau Tokyo,　2016/2017
(c) Nobuyoshi Araki /Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery
Photo of Mika Ninagawa's work
Mika Ninagawa, TOKYO INNOCENCE, 2015
(c) mika ninagawa /Courtesy of TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY
Photo of Motoyuki Daifu's work
Motoyuki Daifu, Still Life, 2016
(c) Motoyuki Daifu /Courtesy of MISAKO & ROSEN
Photo of SATO Shintaro's work
SATO Shintaro“Risen in the East” Asakusa, Taito Ward, April 10, 2011
(c) SATO Shintaro, Courtesy of PGI
Photo of Shinya Arimoto's work
Shinya Arimoto, TOKYO CIRCULATION, 2016
(c) Shinya Arimoto
Photo of Natsumi Hayashi's work
Natsumi Hayashi, Today's Levitation 02/21/2011
(c) Natsumi Hayashi
Photo of Kenta Cobayashi's work
Kenta Cobayashi, Untitled, #smudge #video, 2016
(c) Kenta Cobayashi /Courtesy of GP Gallery
Photo of Daido Moriyama's work
Daido Moriyama“Dog and Mesh Tights” Silkscreen, 2018
(c) Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation
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