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Weekends (Oct 17–18 & 24–25)
Dedicated to our vibrant public programs, including photobook launches, workshops, artist talks, and discussions.

Weekdays (Oct 19–23 & 26–27)
Dedicated to the general viewing of the exhibitions and the masterclass.

View the daily schedule below.

Main Venue: Three Space Tokyo*

Asakusabashi 3-6-6, Taito-ku, Tokyo
6-minute walk from Asakusabashi Station
8-minute walk from Kuramae Station

*Open daily from 12:00 to 19:00 (hours subject to change)

Masterclass Venue: +BASE**

Asakusabashi 3-12-6, Taito-ku, Tokyo

**Accessible to the masterclass and workshop participants only

Entry to the exhibitions is free and open to the public.

Certain special programs and workshops may require prior registration and/or fees.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Open Daily from 12:00 to 19:00

(1st floor) Come What May: Three-Fold Perspectives, Fragments, and Forms

(2nd floor) The Ephemere Photobook Exhibition

(3rd floor) ANTHOLOGY 3

OPENING DAY • ARTIST TALKS • BOOK LAUNCH

13:00 to 13:45 – Kousuke Shimasaki, Rinzai

14:00 to 14:45 – Alfred Ong, Phantasma

15:00 to 15:45 – César Vásquez Altamirano, In Between

16:00 to 16:45 – Takashi Fukukawa, Triptych Tokyo

17:00 to 17:45 – Lisa Jayne Cramer, Flower Under Ether

18:00 to 18:45 – Ephemere Photo Journal Volume 2

WORKSHOPS

11:30 to 13:00 –

13:30 to 15:00 – Cyanotype

15:30 to 17:00 – Mordançage

ARTISTS’ GATHERING

18:00 to 19:00 – Come What May (Part 1)

MEETUP

13:00 to 16:00 – Ephemere Photobook Club (tentative)

WORKSHOPS

11:30 to 13:00 – “Images in Dialogue”

13:30 to 15:00 – “The Intentional Image”

15:30 to 17:00 – “Before the Image Disappears”

PRESENTATION

17:00 to 17:45 – Ephemere Photobook Dummy Masterclass

ARTISTS’ GATHERING

18:00 to 18:45 – Come What May (Part 2)

ARTIST TALKS

12:00 to 12:45 – Khanjan Purohit

13:00 to 13:45 – Alex Alonso

14:00 to 14:45 – Sari Sutton

15:00 to 15:45 – Dan Skjæveland & Akira Hashimoto

16:00 to 16:45 – Fábio Mattos

ARTISTS’ GATHERING

17:00 to 17:45 – Ephemere Photobook Exhibition

ARTIST TALKS

18:00 to 18:45 – Anthology 3 Group Exhibition

All exhibitions, artist talks, presentations, and gatherings are FREE to the public.

To secure your seat, RSVP here.

🪶 Juggling life between his native Kochi prefecture and Tokyo, photographer Kousuke Shimasaki presents Rinzai, a sincere photobook exploring grief, healing, and the spiritual essence of those who have passed. Guided by his family’s ancestral motto and the blooming of a white rose, the work visualizes the unseen presence of memory. Attendees will discover how photography preserves the intangible.

Language: Japanese

🔥 Visiting from the Philippines, Ephemere’s assistant curator Alfred Ong shares Phantasma, a powerful visual confrontation with childhood trauma, domestic violence, and the complex mourning of an abusive father. Mapped across the framework of Dante's Nine Circles of Hell, the book transforms visceral hues into a search for sanctuary. This deeply personal solo talk explores how vulnerability carves out fragile peace.

Language: English

🪦 Visiting from the UK, Peruvian artist César Vásquez Altamirano is joined by poet Mercurial Pearl to introduce In Between: Letters Addressed to Death, a collaborative photobook bridging atmospheric photography with evocative poetry. Exploring universal themes of anticipatory grief and mortality within London cemeteries, the work reflects on the spaces between presence and absence. The session delves into the book's intricate thread-bound Victorian Gothic aesthetic.

Language: English

🎞️ Japanese “weekend” photographer Takashi Fukukawa is joined by special guest Photographer Alice to share Triptych Tokyo, an exploration of Shibuya and Shinjuku captured on a panoramic Hasselblad XPan. By intentionally splitting single scenes into reconstructed large-format negatives, his distinct darkroom process expands the urban visual field. This collaborative cross-talk unpacks his hands-on methodology for documenting shifting Japanese cityscapes.

Language: Japanese

🪻 Traveling from Australia, inaugural Ephemere Photobook Grant winner Lisa Jayne Cramer launches Flower Under Ether, a quiet masterpiece balancing grief with transcendent light. Confronting the silent absence surrounding childlessness, the book weaves vulnerable imagery with delicate, ethereal design to transform loss into hope. Her presentation reflects on this powerful journey toward emotional healing and newfound wholeness.

Language: English

📰 Ephemere founder Anne Murayama and Journal editor Khanjan Purohit launch the Ephemere Photo Journal Vol. 2, a cornerstone publication centering on the festival theme of Ephemerality Through Triplicities. Featuring ten essays from global artists, this edition explores the rich intersections of impermanence and photography. Join the team to discuss its curation, textual narratives, and our continuing print collaboration with Kyoto Shimbun Printing.

Image © Li Wenxuan

Language: English

PART 1 of 2

☘️ Originating from our Triptychs open call featuring 90 international artists, Come What May explores the expressive possibilities of triple-frame sequencing. Across two weekend sessions, attending creators gather for informal presentations to discuss visual rhythm, narrative design, and layout. Join these collaborative gatherings to engage directly with participating artists about their featured triptychs.

Image © Isis Ascobereta

Language: English

📓 Led by mentors Anne Murayama and Junko Kaisato, this showcase presents the creative outputs of six international artists following an intensive five-day masterclass. Participants share their newly developed photobook dummies, detailing the editing, tactile choices, and structural considerations shaped during the week. Attendees will gain rare behind-the-scenes insights into translating raw photographic archives into polished publication prototypes.

Image © Alex Huda

Language: English

PART 2 of 2

☘️ Originating from our Triptychs open call featuring 90 international artists, Come What May explores the expressive possibilities of triple-frame sequencing. Across two weekend sessions, attending creators gather for informal presentations to discuss visual rhythm, narrative design, and layout. Join these collaborative gatherings to engage directly with participating artists about their featured triptychs.

Image © Isis Ascobereta

Language: English

🎨 Joining us from India, photographer and Ephemere Photo Journal editor Khanjan Purohit explores how color functions as a spiritual language, cultural identity, and visual framework across Indian urban landscapes. This talk traces color’s journey through traditional symbolism, climate, and daily life, examining how chromatic geography shapes contemporary documentary storytelling. Attendees will gain nuanced perspectives on navigating vibrant color palettes within visual narratives.

Language: English

📦 Traveling from Okinawa, Mexican biologist and photographer Alex Alonso unpacks the radical creative possibilities of stripping image-making down to its most primitive technological essentials. Inspired by Carlos Jurado’s conceptual framework of "the magic box and the unicorn," this session explores pinhole optics, experimental recipes, and solargraphy. The talk concludes with a hands-on camera showcase featuring commercial and DIY pinhole tools.

Language: English

Visiting from Australia, visual artist Sari Sutton presents Dark Energy, a conceptual body of work exploring the cosmic connection between humanity and the celestial. Tracing her creative journey from a Mount Stromlo Observatory residency to an upcoming photobook, she reveals the darkroom chemistry behind her lensless photograms. Attendees will discover how historical techniques can evoke profound atmospheric mysteries.

Language: English

🗺️ Traveling from Norway, photographer Dan Skjæveland is joined by Tokyo-based artist Akira Hashimoto for a cross-talk on building an autonomous practice outside commercial conventions. Drawing from a decade-long archive, their conversation examines how subtle shifts in perspective transform everyday environments into atmospheric visual art. This collaborative session offers unique insights into treating photography as a deeply contemplative medium.

Language: English

🌞 Joining us from Brazil, visual artist Fábio Mattos presents Solaris, a multidisciplinary project combining photography, drawing, and poetic text. This artist talk explores light as both the fundamental material of image-making and a metaphor for inner sensory experience. Following the visual presentation and Q&A, attendees are invited to an informal book viewing and signing.

Language: English

📚 Featuring over fifty international publications alongside the complete Ephemere catalog, this gathering celebrates independent photobook culture from around the world. Visiting authors and self-publishers come together in a relaxed setting to introduce their physical books, discussing tactile choices and narrative design. Visitors are invited to browse the curated collection while chatting directly with the artists.

Image © Lindsay Buchman

Language: English

🌿 Marking a festival highlight, this group presentation brings together nine local and international artists featured in the ANTHOLOGY 3 exhibition. The session also serves as the official launch for the accompanying photobook, which documents the exhibited visual projects. Join us for an inspiring closing dialogue celebrating collaborative publication, diverse artistic perspectives, and shared print culture.

Language: English and Japanese

Led by Tokyo-based Indonesian photographer Karina Saputri, this beginner-friendly workshop introduces participants to cyanotype, one of photography's earliest alternative printing methods.

Attendees learn the fundamentals of this historic process while transforming botanical materials, found objects, or custom digital negatives into two unique handmade prints. Working with pre-coated paper, sunlight, and water, participants experience the magical moment their compositions develop into rich Prussian blue images.

Designed for creative enthusiasts seeking a slower, tactile approach to image-making, this hands-on session provides all necessary materials and practical knowledge to continue experimenting independently at home.

October 18, Sunday
13:30 to 15:00
10 participants only

San Francisco artist Sky Stevens leads a hands-on exploration of mordançage, a rare alternative process that transforms silver gelatin prints.

Participants learn the historical and chemical foundations of the technique before bleaching and redeveloping black-and-white silver prints in studio trays. By lifting, draping, and altering the emulsion layers, attendees create atmospheric, veil-like physical prints with unique textures.

Designed for photographers interested in experimental printmaking, this session provides step-by-step guidance on turning traditional darkroom prints into one-of-a-kind tactile art objects.

October 18, Sunday
15:30 to 17:00
10 participants only

Facilitated by Polish-Norwegian photographer Katarzyna Serwatka, this workshop offers a practical method for constructing visual narratives between photographs.

Working with physical prints from the open public archive Fortepan alongside images they bring themselves, participants build pairings based on formal rhyme, scale, and emotional resonance, then sequence them into a hand-folded mini zine to take home.

Through hands-on editing and guided evaluation, attendees discover how decontextualised images generate new dialogue, leaving with both a finished object and a repeatable framework for sequencing photobook projects, exhibition layouts, and open-call submissions.

October 24, Saturday
11:30 to 13:00
10 participants only

Led by Indian visual artist Ratika Singh, this reflective workshop invites participants to take on the roles of editor and curator using physical prints from her long-term series SAAH.

Guided by breath, color, symbolism, and emotional prompts, attendees build micro-exhibitions and exchange observations with peers.

The session explores what happens when image-makers slow down both the creation and viewing processes, offering photographers, editors, and curators practical tools for intuitive editing, intentional storytelling, and deeper narrative connection.

October 24, Saturday
13:30 to 15:00
10 participants only

Grounded in the Japanese concept of “omokage”—the lingering trace left after a disappearance—this workshop led by Copenhagen-based artist Sara Bensaltana explores the unseen narratives of anonymous photographs sourced from Japanese flea markets.

Through intuitive observation, discussion, and reflective writing, attendees engage with found imagery and assemble a custom A3 folded zine.

The session encourages a contemplative, slower approach to image reading, transforming forgotten visual fragments into poetic personal reflections on memory, loss, and the material life of photographs.

October 24, Saturday
15:30 to 17:00
10 participants only

📌 Selected Artists Announced

For our thirteenth open call, we are looking for cohesive triptychs that speak to one another under the overarching theme of "Triplicities."

Selected artists will be featured in a special group publication and a dedicated gallery exhibition.

To fuel this production, this opportunity requires a submission fee to help cover administrative, curation, design, and printing costs.

If selected, in-person attendance in Tokyo is not required.

Complete guidelines and submission form below.

📌 Selected Artists Announced

Fresh off the recently concluded showcase in Kyoto for KG+, we are expanding our traveling library for a dedicated EPF Photobook Exhibition.

We are looking for new titles from around the world to celebrate during the festival.

This opportunity includes a free digital pre-selection phase, after which invited artists pay a participation fee to cover logistics and physical handling.

In-person attendance is not required.

Complete details and submission form below.

We are handing over the floor and the time to our community to share their ideas, projects, or insights.

Pitch us your concept for a 60 to 90-minute activity—whether it is an artist talk, a panel discussion, or a mini-workshop.

Selected pitches will be officially integrated into our vibrant weekend public programs at no venue cost to you.

Because this is a live event, your physical attendance in Tokyo is required.

Complete details and submission form below.

📌 Selected Artists Announced

Join us for an intensive 5-day masterclass co-led by Ephemere founder Anne Murayama and visual artist Junko Kaisato.

Designed for artists with an active body of work, this program guides a select cohort of 6 to 8 participants through constructing a tactile photobook dummy, concluding with a live presentation and exhibition during the EPF 2026.

Application is free, with tiered tuition rates applied upon acceptance. Because this is an intensive, in-person studio workshop, your physical attendance in Tokyo is required.

Complete details and submission form below.

📌 Selected Artists Announced

We are selecting nine artists to create a balanced visual dialogue across the gallery walls and within an accompanying photobook.

Curated by Anne Murayama and assisted by Alfred Ong, our team fully manages all production, professional printing, framing, and installation for a seamless artist experience.

Application is free, with an all-inclusive production fee applied only upon selection.

Because selected artists will present a live Artist Talk during the festival, in-person attendance in Tokyo is required for your designated Artist Talk day.

Complete guidelines and application form below.

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Join the EPF team as a volunteer and make a direct impact at our second edition! We need enthusiastic individuals to assist with various daily tasks from October 14 to 28.

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

Partner with Ephemere! 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.

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