New Chapter of Landscape #3 – On the Contemporary Condition of Landscape Photography
July 4 (Fri) – September 7 (Sun), 2025

Venue: YOD Gallery (Tennoz, Tokyo)

3F TERRADA ART COMPLEXⅡ 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku,Tokyo

Opening hours: 12:00-19:00

Closing date: Mondays & Tuesdays
Opening party: April 11 2025 (Fri.), from 18:00

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 YOD Gallery (Tennozu, Tokyo) is pleased to present the group exhibition New Chapter of Landscape #3 – On the Contemporary Condition of Landscape Photography, on view from July 4 (Fri) to September 7 (Sun), 2025.
Curated by artist and photographer Kohei Fukushima, the exhibition features works by five artists: Yuki Akaba, Yuki Abe, Susumu Okada, Maki Hayashida, and Kohei Fukushima.

 New Chapter of Landscape is an ongoing exhibition series launched with the aim of examining the transformations and potential of landscape photography as a form of expression. Following previous iterations in 2015 and 2017, this third edition marks the series' return after eight years.
In recent years, the notion of "landscape" has been undergoing drastic change, shaped by shifting urban environments, increasingly complex social structures, and rapid technological development.
Through the diverse approaches and perspectives of these five artists―each grounded in the medium of photography―this exhibition seeks to reexamine the current state of landscape as subject and image. We warmly invite you to experience this timely and thought-provoking presentation.​

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 This exhibition explores the shifting concept and expanding potential of landscape photography through a variety of contemporary expressions.
The landscapes that surround us today are layered and evolving at an unprecedented pace, influenced by dramatic urban development, complex social dynamics, and the pervasive presence of digital media.
Within these conditions, landscape photography has come to transcend its traditional role as a tool for documentation. It now serves as a platform for presenting new perspectives―incorporating time, history, and socio-political context.

 Now, ten years since the inaugural edition of New Chapter of Landscape, this exhibition offers an opportunity to reconsider the sensorial and intellectual richness embedded in the field of landscape photography.
Although recent advances in VR and web technologies have expanded the very definition of landscape, this exhibition remains firmly rooted in the photographic medium. It emphasizes the importance of engaging deeply with photography’s material limitations and latent possibilities.
To reimagine landscape through photography is, at its core, to ask how we relate to and perceive "place" in a time of dramatic social and environmental transformation.

 Each participating artist approaches landscape in a distinct way―measuring distance, intervening in space, or intentionally shifting visual structures.
What emerges in their work are traces of social, historical, or technological presence embedded in the landscape―spaces that also quietly awaken the viewer’s memory and imagination.

 What this exhibition presents is not landscape as a fixed object, but an ongoing attempt to connect with it through the act of seeing.
In an era when our perception of landscape is in constant flux, we hope to consider how photographic expression might respond to this fluidity and cultivate new relationships between image, subject, and viewer.

 

Kohei Fukushima​​​​