Kohey Kanno

Born in 1982.

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Kohey Kanno is the youngest photographer in the “Flowers of Japan | Defloration ”. Exhibited at the Unseen Festival in Amsterdam 2017, he was part of the Parcours Saint-Germain that same year with young Japanese photographers in the “Beyond 2020” exhibition. Giving great importance to the symbolism of images, this promising photographer - recipient of the Japan Photo Award in 2016 for a photograph in his series "Invisible Memories" - who lived several years in New York before settling in Tokyo likes to link intimate portraits and symbolic images.

In fact, many of Kohey Kanno's photos are loaded with a certain mystery, forcing the viewer to speculate on the history of the photograph itself. In the prints of the three series exhibited at the gallery, Kohey Kanno works both on the graphic dimension of photography but also on the aesthetics of his work, which he constantly questions.