Kai Yokoyama

Photographer

www.kaiyokoyama.com

Photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. Member of Native Agency and Diversify Photo. https://www.kaiyokoyama.com/ @kaiykym

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Kai Yokoyama is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. Starting out as an architecture student at Saitama University, he switched his major to photography and completed his studies at Tokyo College of Photography.

He has traveled the world photographing refugees, children with disabilities, and victims of terrorism. In recent years, having lived abroad, he has been photographing foreigners living in Japan. His works have been published such as The Washington Post and Marie Claire Italy.

Yokoyama's work has been awarded or shortlisted at KLPA(2019), PX3(2019, 2020), IPA (2020), Athens Photo Festival(2020), and he won first place in the LensCulture/Journeys series category(2020)

In 2020, he participates in #ICPConcerned exhibition at ICP, Home Museum exhibition at LagosPhoto, and the online exhibition at PHmuseum.

Also, he receives Carolyn Drake’s mentorship program in Magnum Photos and also Yumi Goto's one-year mentorship program in Tokyo.

Recently, he has been shortlisted for the 2020 Emerging Artist Scholarship in Lucie Foundation.

He is a member of Native Agency and Diversify Photo.

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