OVERVIEW

What is T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO?

This year will see the 5th T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO outdoor international photo festival. The main setting is located in the Yaesu/Nihonbashi/Kyobashi area in the center of Tokyo. This area is very much considered a business district, but if you look at its history, you can see a different landscape. In the Edo Period, painters of the Kano school and renowned artist Hiroshige Utagawa lived in this castle town, where Edo-style kabuki originated. Through the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras, many persons of culture visited this district frequently. For that reason, there are long-established shops and more than 150 antique dealers and art galleries in this area that have inherited this history. This year’s exhibition by over 20 artists, the largest number ever, offers a huge exhibit covering a building wall, an installation that leverages urban space, hands-on artwork, and other exhibits that cannot be seen anywhere else. Enjoy encounters with these works while exploring the district.

Origin of the name

The name “T3” comes from the “3 T’s (technology, talent, and tolerance)” necessary for cities to thrive, as proposed by American sociologist Richard Florida in the book “The Rise of the Creative Class”. This festival becoming a platform influenced by artists and local people and becoming a place that produces new expressions, explanations of urban spaces, diversity, and tolerance is included in this meaning.

Event overview

Name

T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2023

Dates

October 7th (Saturday) to October 29th, 2023 (Sunday)

Venues

Tokyo Station East Side Area (Yaesu, Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi)
TOKYO SQUARE GARDEN, Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, JR Tokyo Station (Outside Yaesu Central Exit gates, GRANSTA YAESU), National Film Archive of Japan, TODA BUILDING temporary construction enclosure, Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Bldg., Tokyo Tatemono Nihonbashi Bldg., Tokyo Tatemono Yaesu Nakadori Bldg., Daimaru Tokyo, BAG-Brillia Art Gallery- + 2, art space kimura ASK? 72Gallery, YAESU st. PARKLET, and more

Admission

Free

Organizer

TOKYO INSTITUTE of PHOTOGRAPHY

Management

CMS Corporation

Planning

T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Executive Committee

Special sponsors

TOKYO SQUARE GARDEN, Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd., and TODA CORPORATION

The theme for 2023 is “LINK UP!”.

This year’s theme is “LINK UP!”. These days, old things and new things and real and online exist alongside each other. To put it another way, you can say we live in a time in which the coordinate axes of “time” and “distance” have the most gradations. “LINK UP!” is the keyword to enjoy this abundance of gradations by linking points inside these coordinate axes in ways that had not even been imagined until now.