World Press Photo | Hideko Kataoka (Director of Photography, NEWSWEEK Japan), Noriko Hayashi (Documentary Photographer, 10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers exhibiting artist) and Yasuyoshi Chiba (World Press 2020 Winner) [JP]
Noku Kyoto
2022.4.9
14:00~15:30
無料
Take this opportunity to learn more about World Press Photo and the power of journalism with a live discussion moderated by Hideko Kataoka, Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan. Accompanied by Yasuyoshi Chiba (online from Nairobi, Kenya) sharing experience with more information about his winning photo; what has happened since he captured this moment that won the World Press Photo of the Year in 2020, exhibited in KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022. Joining Kataoka in Kyoto is, Noriko Hayashi, an exhibiting photographer of KYOTOGRAPHIE in 2022. Using the Power People exhibition as a platform they explore what press freedom means to them and its importance in our society.
Why is press freedom more important now than ever? This is a challenging and difficult time for the global community. The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that “the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting and amplifying the many crises that threaten the right to freely reported, independent, diverse and reliable information.”This 2020 edition identified five converging crises threatening the future of journalism: “a geopolitical crisis (due to the aggressiveness of authoritarian regimes); a technological crisis (due to a lack of democratic guarantees); a democratic crisis (due to polarisation and repressive policies); a crisis of trust (due to suspicion and even hatred of the media); and an economic crisis (impoverishing quality journalism).”Today more than ever we need journalism we can trust. – WORLD PRESS PHOTO
Hideko Kataoka has been Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan, since 2001. She joined the magazine as a photographer in 1991, covering national news, social issues and portraiture of world business and cultural leaders. As director of photography, she oversees and directs photography both for the printed and digital editions of the magazine as well as its special issues. In 2004, she created the "Picture Power" section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics from around the world. The book "Ten Years of Picture Power", with selected photo stories from the section, was published in 2014. Hideko is a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2013, does portfolio reviews and has served as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, such as World Press Photo, FotoFest and many others.
Noriko Hayashi
Noriko Hayashi is a documentary photographer who focuses on social and gender issues. Her long-term project on Japanese wives living in North Korea explores conceptions of space, place, and personal history, looking at how these relate to individual and social memories. Hayashi’s work has been recognized internationally with awards such as the NPPA Best of Photojournalism, the Visa d’Or feature award at the Visa pour l’Image festival. She was also a finalist at the Alexia Foundation Professional Award and the Amnesty Media Awards. Noriko has published two photo books, AlakaChuu (National Geographic, 2014) and The Prayer of the Yazidis about the plight of Yazidis in Iraq’s civil war (Akaaka Art Publishing, 2016). Her work has been featured worldwide in publications like The New York Times, GRANTA, Stern, National Geographic, Marie Claire, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and many others. She is represented by Panos Pictures, UK.
Yasuyoshi Chiba is Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) Chief Photographer for East Africa and Indian Ocean, currently based in Nairobi, Kenya.
After studying photography at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, he started working as a staff photographer for Asahi Shimbun. He became a freelance photographer and moved to Kenya in 2007, and then joined AFP in Brazil in 2011.
