TheAsama International Photo Festival - Photo Miyota is one of the few events in Japan dedicated exclusively to contemporary photography. It is distinguished by a clear ambition: to offer visitors an experience where art dialogues with landscape and architecture.
Conceived as a festival in dialogue with its environment, it deploys its exhibitions in the MMoP(Miyota Museum of Photography) but also in outdoor spaces, transforming the city and its surroundings into an immense open-air gallery.
This approach lends the event a singular atmosphere: here, photography isn't just contemplated on picture rails, it's experienced in direct resonance with the nature that surrounds the site.
For its 2025 edition, the festival has adopted the theme "Unseen Worlds". The aim is to explore, through photography, everything that escapes our familiar gaze: the invisible forces of technology, the subterranean movements of society, the interiority of individuals, and the little-known dimensions of nature.
So many territories that invite us to go beyond the obvious and question our perception of reality.
The program brings together Japanese and international artists, confirming the global dimension of the event. Among them, photographer Elsa Leydier, who presents several of her series (FLORA BRASILIENSIS 3.0, LUTOA, LA HOJARASCA).
His work fits in perfectly with the spirit of the festival, as it questions the always subjective and biased way in which we represent our natural environment.
Alongside artists such as Stephen Gill, Karolina Wojtas and Kazuma Obara, his participation illustrates the diversity of approaches and the richness of the view of these "invisible worlds".
