{"id":1802,"date":"2025-06-14T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:32:02","slug":"kentarokumon_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/exhibition\/en\/kentarokumon_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentaro Kumon \u201cSmoke and Steam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAST EXHIBITION<\/p>\n

Kentaro Kumon \u201cSmoke and Steam\u201d<\/h1>\n

Friday, June 27\u2013Saturday, July 19, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kentaro Kumon\uff1a\u201dSmoke and Steam\u201d
\nFriday, June 27\u2013Saturday, July 19, 2025 13:00\u201319:00
\nClosed on Sundays, Mondays and Holidays
\nLAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)
\nDaiwa Jingumae Bldg. 1F, 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
\nOpening reception\uff1aFriday, June 27, 18:00\u201320:00<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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LAG is pleased to announce the exhibition of Kentaro Kumon’s photographs \u201cSmoke and Steam\u201d from Friday, June 27, 2025, to Saturday, July 19, 2025.
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\nThe OLYMPUS PEN FT, which he inherited from his father when he was a freshman in college, was nothing like what he wanted. It was just a worn-out old camera, even its mirror needed a bond to attach it. Until then, he had never taken a picture, but once his father taught him how to use the camera and release the shutter, the scene in front of him was captured clearly in the photograph, even with such a camera.
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\nThis exhibition, \u201cSmoke and Steam\u201d will display and sell a carefully selected collection of the vast number of photographs taken with that camera over a year in 2023. The compositions and the contents of the exhibition will be a big difference from the same title exhibition, which was opened at Roll at Iidabashi in 2024. Twenty-five years have passed since the day he first released the shutter. This work was taken with the camera, which inspired him to pursue a career as a professional photographer, maybe the trail that led him and his photography to the future through the team-up with his only father and his only camera.
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\nAlong with this exhibition, we will release a photo book of the same title, and its first edition already has only a few left in stock. The artist\u2019s talk will also take place during the exhibition, so please look forward to it.<\/p>\n

Guest Curator : Yosuke Fujiki \uff08Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd.\uff09<\/p>\n

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I’m using today, my father’s camera often didn’t do as I wanted. The images would be out of focus or too grainy, or the film would tear altogether. But the photos it gave me made me wander back and forth through my memories, perhaps because I often thought of my father and our old house during that year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt from: \u201cKemuri to Suijyoki – Smoke and Steam\u201d Kentaro Kumon (Photo Collection)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kemuri to Suijyoki – Smoke and Steam<\/h3>\n

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Released November 4, 2024
\nby Kentaro Kumon
\nDesign: Koji Miyazoe
\nTranslator: Robert Zetzsche
\nEdit: Yosuke Fujiki \uff08Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd.\uff09
\nPublished by COO BOOKS
\nPrinted and bound by LIVE ART BOOKS
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Kentaro Kumon<\/b><\/p>\n

A Japanese photographer, he was born in 1981. He has worked mainly in reportage and portraiture in various media, such as magazines, books, and advertisements. At the same time, he has covered chiefly actual spots of primary industries under the theme of “landscapes created by human activities.” His works include ” Cultivators,” photographed a series of agricultural landscapes across Japan; “Calendar River,” which examines the connection between rivers and people; “Topography of Light,” which traveled around the peninsula to photograph the climate and lifestyle in Japan, and “Sleeping Island,” which focus the deals with the depopulation of the island in the Seto Inland. His latest work is “Smoke and Steam,” a collection of snapshots taken over a year through his relationship with his father.
\nIn 2012, he won the Photographic Society of Japan New Face Award for “Sesame’s Western Goods Store.” And he won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
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