Kentaro Takahashi is a photographer and artist based in Kyoto, Japan. His practice reflects on time, absence, and loss, gradually opening toward questions of how to remain beside the memories of others and to be with them. Working primarily with photography, Takahashi navigates between historical research and emotional resonance, tracing layered memories embedded in specific places. His projects often emerge from long-term investigation and sustained encounters, engaging with testimony, archives, and lived experience. Rather than functioning as documents that conclude, his photographs become spaces where fragile presences endure, revealing the intertwined traces of memory and erasure.
Education
2012 B.A., Department of Social Science and Informatics, Aoyama-gakuin, Tokyo, JP
Solo Exhibitions
2020 A Red Hat, Asahikawa Civic Gallery, Hokkaido, JP
2019 A Red Hat, Nikon Gallery Osaka, Osaka, JP
2019 A Red Hat, Nikon Gallery District, Tokyo, JP
2015 Hiroshima 2015, Nikon Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, JP
Group Exhibitions
2025 Close Absence, SeMA Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2021 A Red Hat, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido, JP
Publications
2020 A Red Hat, Akaaka Art Publishing, JP
Selected Editorial Commissions
The New York Times, Le Monde, de Volkskrant, der spiegel, die Zeit, Bloomberg, TEMPURA
Awards
2020 Special Photographer Award, 36th Higashikawa Awards, JP 2015 9th Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant, JP
