Claudia Fuggetti, Metamorphosis, 2024 © the artist

SEEEU 2025 is Japan’s first European Photography Festival.  Featuring 14 artist groups from 12 countries, the festival brings together over 250 works in Tokyo. It introduces Europe’s diverse photographic cultures and fosters dialogue between Japan and Europe.  The theme is Reframing Realities.

Reframing Realities explores the shifting viewpoints that define and redraw contemporary Europe. From vibrant European communities to fluid identities in a hyper-mediated digital age, the theme examines how realities – objective, personal, ecological, aesthetic – are continuously constructed, erased and reimagined. As Europe navigates armed conflict, migration flows and the pressure of the Anthropocene, photographers respond with images that blur the lines between documentation and invention. In an era of self-curation and unrecognisable retouching, synthetic beauty and vanishing biodiversity, this year’s theme asks: where do the edges lie and who has the power to redraw them.

Free exhibitions will be held across 12 indoor and outdoor venues – including construction site walls, cafes and galleries – transforming the city into an art space.

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