This event is in the past.It took place on July 25, 2026 at Écho 119 Gallery & Photobook Store.




Bastille, Paris
🚪"located in a courtyard behind a black metal door with a buzzer — but well worth the effort"
🏛️Concurrent retrospective at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
Kazuo Kitai takes a knife to his own past. The Japanese documentary photographer has torn, patched, and painted over his early protest-era prints, turning archival negatives into raw, reimagined artworks stamped with childlike letters and numbers.
Japanese documentary photography
altered archival prints
free gallery exhibition
student protest history




Bastille, Paris
🚪"located in a courtyard behind a black metal door with a buzzer — but well worth the effort"
🏛️Concurrent retrospective at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
Kazuo Kitai takes a knife to his own past. The Japanese documentary photographer has torn, patched, and painted over his early protest-era prints, turning archival negatives into raw, reimagined artworks stamped with childlike letters and numbers.
Japanese documentary photography
altered archival prints
free gallery exhibition
student protest history