Kazuo Kitai, Iroha Europe of imagination

of imagination

defiant and tender

whose symbolic and material lives go largely unexamined

the growing presence of advertising photography began to shape readers not only as viewers but as future consumers

Victor Clavelly

Kazuo Kitai, Iroha Europe of imaginationWith this latest series, Kazuo Kitai renews his practice. By transforming his archival images, he offers a new, sensitive and gestural reading, questioning the creative act at the end of a cycle. In this new series, Kazuo Kitai revisits his own photographic archives: faces, bodies under tension, marching crowds, fragments of resistance. Known for documenting the protest movements in Japan during the 1960s, he now chooses to reactivate these images