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 most of the childhood in the United States and Canada. Tracing individual lives, he explores the distance between others’ memories and his own present. Major works include A RED HAT, on the wartime Life Drawing Incident, and a room with chrysanthemums.

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 work traces individual lives in order to reflect on the distance between myself, living in the present, and the memories of others. Through projects centered on a wartime incident in Asahikawa and on the life of a person forced to move from Korea to Okinawa, I visit the places they once inhabited, attending to the traces they left behind, the words they spoke, and what remains unspoken. Rather than reconstructing the past, I seek to reimagine my relationship with them from the present. Photography has gradually become, for me, a way of sustaining a response to those who inhabit a different time. This is, perhaps, the way I will keep responding.