T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2026

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T3 Photo Festival Tokyo, one of Asia’s leading international photography festivals, transforms the urban landscape of Tokyo, where office towers, commercial complexes, and public spaces converge, into a citywide platform for photography.

Now in its eighth edition, the photo festival will host special exhibitions under the theme “& ”, exploring photography’s capacity to connect seemingly opposing forces and reveal new relationships across cultures, histories, and lived experiences.

The festival will host two main exhibitions and more than ten special exhibitions. One of the two main exhibitions, Constant Bloom by Lucas Foglia, will be presented at Tokyo Midtown Yaesu. The exhibition follows the longest butterfly migration across continents, pairing photographs of Painted Lady butterflies with portraits of people they encounter. Tracing routes shaped by changing weather and political borders, the prints offer a hopeful vision of a delicate, interconnected, and resilient world.

The special exhibitions include Dutch photographer Sarah van Rij, Atlas of Echoes (tentative title) creating a site-responsive exhibition spanning indoor and outdoor locations in Nihonbashi. Known for her dreamlike images that blur reality and memory, van Rij’s work will enter into dialogue with Tokyo’s urban landscape and architecture. Following last year’s successful co-curation between the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) and T3 photo Festival, STUDIO + Expanding Contemporary Photography #2 presents works by British artist Antony Cairns and Chinese artist PIDAN. The exhibition examines how photography continues to evolve beyond the traditional boundaries of image-making into expanded forms of installation, information, and material practice. Another duo exhibition will bring together two Japanese artists, Nozomi Suzuki and Sayaka Uehara, whose practices engage with memory embedded in landscapes, exploring photography as a medium that reconnects past and present, place and experience.

The complete exhibition list will be announced in early August.

Lucas Foglia, Arturo with Ashes at a Nature Immersion Camp, Italy, 2021 From the series Constant Bloom
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Lucas Foglia, Arturo with Ashes at a Nature Immersion Camp, Italy, 2021 From the series Constant Bloom

Lucas Foglia, from the series Constant Bloom
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Lucas Foglia, from the series Constant Bloom

Lucas Foglia, from the series Constant Bloom
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Lucas Foglia, from the series Constant Bloom

Exhibition view 'PXL CTY' by Antony Cairns at MEP – Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2022. ©Tadzio
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Exhibition view 'PXL CTY' by Antony Cairns at MEP – Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2022. ©Tadzio

T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2026
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Nozomi Suzuki, Through the Holes in the Railings Designed after the Tsūsen-bori (Boat Canal) of the Minumadai Canal, Midori Ward, Saitama, from the series Monologue of the Light,

Sarah van Rij, Tullips, 2026
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Sarah van Rij, Tullips, 2026

Sayaka Uehara, from the series Okinawa Tomigusuku Senaga
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Sayaka Uehara, from the series Okinawa Tomigusuku Senaga

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©PIDAN