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We are proud to partner with the Sonntag Grant for Photography, a new annual award that supports FLINTA (female, lesbian, inter, non-binary, trans, agender) artists. This grant awards one photographer €3,000 to develop a project, and we are thrilled to help them find a global community.

As a gesture of this partnership, the Sonntag Grant has generously offered 5 free submission codes for our community. All you have to do to receive one is to fill out our RSVP form and attend EPF in person.

The codes will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis at the gallery. It’s our way of encouraging you to take your work to the next level while supporting the Sonntag Grant.

We are looking for physical photography books and zines to add to the Ephemere Photo Library, a temporary and traveling archive that will be showcased throughout the EPF.

Paid

In collaboration with Alternative Processes, we are looking for a photographic language of impermanence, where materials, processes, and environments leave their own traces.

Paid

We are looking for single images to include in one of our group exhibitions highlighting Permanence.

Free

We are looking for photo essays to feature in the first printed Ephemere Journal and a group exhibition highlighting Ephemerality.

Free and Paid

Featuring 200 works by 187 photographers, this group exhibition explores the intricate relationship between the fleeting and the enduring in our world. Featuring diverse photographic perspectives, it delves into how fleeting moments shape lasting impressions and how the enduring is revealed through the transient.

Lead Curator: Anne Murayama
Assistant Curators: Kseniya Gorbanova, Andrei Barbos
Technical Advisor: Glen Snyder
Image by Natalie Karpushenko

📍 Gallery Conceal Shibuya
📅 October 01-12, 11:00-20:00
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Paris-based American photographer Jordan Reyes' debut exhibition wrestles with the unknowable through mixed media. Drawing from his books, he explores untethering and isolation, finding reorientation through humor, animals, and wonder.

📍 Gallery Conceal Shibuya
📅 October 01-12, 11:00-20:00
🎟️ Entrance: Free

This program presents a curated series of slideshows by Objectifs (Singapore), offering a vital glimpse into contemporary photography in Southeast Asia. It features works by Kaleb Sitompul, Mai Nguyên Anh, Lê Nguyên Phương, Sarah Isabelle Tan, and Shwe Wutt Hmon, all past recipients of the Objectifs Documentary Award.

Curators: Chelsea Chua and Lim Ming Rui
Image by Kaleb Sitompul

📍 Gallery Conceal Shibuya
📅 October 01-12, 11:00-20:00
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Featuring 42 photographers, this program gives the viewer a glimpse of images from the Philippines and how photographers reflect and navigate life and explore various dimensions of human experience and natural phenomena in the archipelago. Images that speak of isolation, the impact of environmental and social dynamics, and the significance of personal and spiritual spaces, I/Land presents visual narratives that reflect the Filipino spirit of independence.

Curated by FotoMotoPH
Photo by Hersley Casero

📍 Gallery Conceal Shibuya
📅 October 01-12, 11:00-20:00
🎟️ Entrance: Free

London-based photographer Paula Rae Gibson's heartfelt slideshow, Remember When I Told You Everything, is an intimate tribute to her late best friend, Sue. Combining images, music, and memory, the film explores their twenty-year friendship and the unconditional love they shared.

📍 Gallery Conceal Shibuya
📅 October 01-12, 11:00-20:00
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Introducing the inaugural print issue of the Ephemere Photo Journal, a landmark publication featuring exclusive articles, special features, and selected photo essays.

Designed by renowned artist Wuthipol Ujathammarat and brought to life in cooperation with the esteemed Kyoto Shimbun Printing, EPJ will serve as a new cornerstone for our community.

The Ephemere Photo Library is a temporary and traveling archive that explores the beautiful paradox of the physical book as both a permanent record and a fragile, ephemeral object.

This living, moving catalog showcases a diverse collection of books and zines from Ephemere's own titles and artists worldwide, connecting them with new audiences at various events and exhibitions.

Witness the debut of new photobook titles, including solo publications by Jordan Reyes, Paula Rae Gibson, and many more.

We'll also launch compelling group publications like Eroding Forms, a special collaboration with Alternative Processes.

Mentor: Andie Riekstina (visiting from Berlin, Germany)

This workshop challenges the conventional idea of a photograph, exploring it as a mutable medium. Participants will engage in experimental analog and digital practices to rethink what a photograph can be.

Fee: $50 or ¥7,000
Class Size: 8 participants only
Languages: English, German, Latvian, and Russian

Mentor: Clay Mills (visiting from Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Focus on the art of sequencing and editing a body of work into a cohesive narrative. This hands-on session helps photographers build relationships between images and harness their innate artistic intuition

Fee: $100 or ¥15,000
Class Size: 6 participants only
Languages: English with simultaneous Japanese translation

Mentor:Jordan Reyes (visiting from Paris, France)

This 3-day intensive workshop is a deep dive into honing a personal photographic methodology. Create a sustainable and honest practice by focusing on work that feels true to yourself, rather than seeking external validation.

Fee: $250 or ¥35,000
Class Size: 4 participants only
Languages: English and French

Mentor: Chiara Salvi of Alternative Processes (visiting from Italy)

This workshop explores an experimental photographic process that redefines what a photograph can be. Participants will learn to transfer instant photo emulsions onto new surfaces, creating unique, transformed artworks.

Fee: $35 or ¥5,000
Class Size: 8 participants only
Languages: English and Italian

In this talk, photographer Paula Rae Gibson will share how she created her latest photobook, a tribute to her best friend. Through a short film, she will delve into the personal process of making images in the darkroom and explore how her work uses music and memory to capture a relationship of pure and unconditional love.

📅 October 04, Saturday
⏰ 12:00-13:00
♦️ Language: English
🎟️ Entrance: Free

In this talk, visiting artist Jordan Reyes will detail his journeys in writing, music, and photography – how becoming familiar with the commercial, critical, and artistic sides of each medium points to parallel methodologies, despite conventional wisdom noting their differences. He will also talk about his anti-exceptionalist take on artistry, becoming your best teacher, and trusting your intuition above guidance from others. 

📅 October 04, Saturday
⏰ 14:00-15:00
♦️ Language: English, French
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Yoshihiko Okazaki and Hanako Hayashi of Kyoto Shimbun Printing provide an insight into the making of the Ephemere Photo Journal. Through the medium of film, they present the printing process — from data checks and color proofing to the final newspaper presentation — illuminating how this long-established medium can be reimagined in innovative ways within contemporary creative practice.

📅 October 05, Sunday
⏰ 13:00-14:00
♦️ Language: Japanese
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Dmitry Rambovskiy will introduce his new iPhone application, Community, a free app dedicated to Tokyo's world of photo exhibitions. He will showcase how digital tools can strengthen cultural engagement and foster community around photographic art.

📅 October 5, Sunday
⏰ 15:00-16:00
♦️ Language: English
🎟️ Entrance: Free

In this talk, Alternative Processes founder Chiara Salvi explores alternative photographic processes as living, transitional practices—where sustainability, materiality, and imperfection guide creation. Embracing unpredictability and dialogue with nature, it invites a reimagining of photography as a slow, process-led art that values transformation over control.

📅 October 11, Saturday
⏰ 14:00-15:00
♦️ Language: English, Italian
🎟️ Entrance: Free

Zen priest and photographer Glen Snyder will provide a brief overview of the Zen tradition and its surprising relevance to contemporary photography. He will discuss how concepts from ancient Buddhist scriptures, written long before the advent of the camera, can inform and deepen our practice as modern photographers.

📅 October 12, Sunday
⏰ 11:00-12:30
♦️ Language: English, Italian
🎟️ Entrance: Free

In this talk, writer and visual poet Zoria Petkoska explores the rich relationship between image and text. Drawing from her academic research and personal projects, she will discuss how the poetic tradition of haiga has evolved to inform contemporary creative practices that partner photography with poetry.

📅 October 12, Sunday
⏰ 13:00-14:30
♦️ Language: English
🎟️ Entrance: Free

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Join the EPF team as a volunteer and make a direct impact at our first-ever festival! We need enthusiastic individuals to assist with various daily tasks at Gallery Conceal Shibuya from October 1-12.

This is an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience, network with artists and industry professionals, and contribute to fostering a photography community, and receive discounts on workshops.

Partner with EPF! We're actively seeking brands and collectives interested in collaborating to enhance the EPF experience.

As an affiliate, you'll gain distinctive visibility and connect with a passionate global audience, contributing directly to the success of our first-ever festival.

Have questions about EPF or simply want to learn more? Feel free to reach out to us with any general inquiries.