青幻舎 SEIGENSHA Art Publishing

The KG+ Award was launched in 2015 and was renamed the KG+ Select Award in 2019. Each year, a specialist jury chooses one winner who is offered a place in the coveted main program of the Kyotographie International Photography Festival the following year.

Over the past decade, KG+ Select has become a renowned pathway for photographers to reach global audiences, enabling them to create new photobook publications, hold exhibitions around the world, and be featured in domestic and international media. This book presents the works of past laureates, including their award-winning pieces and more recent works, reflecting on their artistic journeys.

This book is an inspirational guide for established and emerging photographers looking to navigate the next stages of their career.

Artists
2015 Eriko Koga
2016 Kallen Yan
2017 Tomomi Morita
2018 Kenryou Gu
2019 Atsushi Fukushima
2020 Yingfei Liang
2021 Tamaki Yoshida
2022 Kazuhiko Matsumura
2023 Jaisingh Nageswaran
2024 Hsing Yu Liu

Contributors
Mariko Takeuchi (writer and critic)
Pascal Beausse (curator)
Lucille Reyboz / Yusuke Nakanishi（directors, Kyotographie/KG+）

Published by Kyotographie; distributed by Seigensha

KG+ Select, the award branch of KG+, kicked off in 2019 as an open competition for photographers around the world. Ten artists are selected by judges and given space and assistance for setting up their own exhibition. During the month that they are exhibiting their work, internationally renowned judges choose one out of the ten as the winner of the KG+ Select Award. The winner is awarded a subsidy to hold an exhibition at Kyotographie the following year. KG+ Select attracts widespread media attention and gives participants the opportunity to join the Kyotographie community, promoting the development of promising artists.