TAKAHASHI Kentaro

Profile

Born in Yokohama in 1989. Lives and works in Japan. Graduated from Department of Social Informatics, Aoyama Gakuin University in 2012. Takahashi spent much of childhood in the United States and Canada. Tracing individual lives, the work reflects on the distance between the present and others' memories. Major works include A RED HAT, on the wartime “Life Drawing Incident,” and A Room with Small Chrysanthemums, tracing a person forced to move from Korea to Okinawa.

Recent activities:
2026 “Dry Land: A Liminal Cartography,” Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture 
2025 “Into Other Rivers,” Art Archives Seoul Museum of Arts
2021 “The 36th Higashikawa Photography Festival,” Higashikawa Cultural Gallery (Hokkaido) 
2020 “KG+ SELECT 2020,” Former Junpū Elementary School (Kyoto)
2020 “A RED HAT,” Asahikawa Citizens’ Cultural Gallery (Hokkaido)   

Recent awards:
2020 The 36th Higashikawa Photography Prize Special Photographer Award
2015 9th Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant

About works / performance

My previous works have traced the lives of people connected to a wartime incident in Asahikawa and of a person who was forced to move from Korea to Okinawa. Through these works, questions have continued to emerge from the distance between myself, living in the present, and the memories of others. Walking the places where they once lived, I attend to the traces they left behind, the words they spoke, and also to silence, absence, and what remained unspoken. Rather than reconstructing the past, I seek to form a relationship with them anew from the present. Over time, photography has gradually become, for me, a way of sustaining a response to those who inhabit a different time. And I imagine this is how I will continue.