An opportunity for artists under the age of 35 years old to have their work included in a museum collection.
Young Portfolio is a program organized by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K*MoPA) to support young photographers from around the world by exhibiting and acquiring their works for our collection.
Anybody under the age of 35 is welcome to submit their works. We are looking for works by devoted photographers who are passionate about their creative efforts.
It is not a contest in which people are only eligible to win a prize once. Multiple submissions may be made up until the age of 35. We hope that by selecting works by the same young artist on a regular basis, we will help build their confidence.
Young Portfolio is unique in that it invites the wider world to recognize the true value of these young artists' abilities while simultaneously preserving their work for posterity.
Ever since the opening of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 1995, the museum and its “Young Portfolio” (YP) program have received support from the Shinnyo-en as part of its philanthropic activities. Now, in order to open the door to an even greater number of young photographers, it has been decided to waive the application fee for the “2024 Young Portfolio.”
Young Portfolio 2024 Call for Entries
1) Preliminary screening: Submissions of image data
January 10, 2024 to February 20 (data must be received by February 20)
2) Final screening: For those who passed the preliminary screening only. Submission of prints.
Deadline for receipt of prints: May 15, 2024
*A maximum of up to 30 works may be submitted.
*Prints of all the works for which image data was submitted for the preliminary screening must be shipped to the Museum.
*New versions of a print will not be accepted after the final screening.
[Selection Committee for 2024]
Michiko Kon, Leslie Kee, Toshiya Momose and Masato Seto (Deputy Director of the Museum)
[Special Committee Member]
Eikoh Hosoe (Director of the Museum)
Works from the 2023 Young Portfolio Acquisitions (Total 101 works)
