Kering has named Ishiuchi Miyako the winner of its 2024 Women in Motion Award for photography, celebrating the contribution made by Japanese women photographers.

On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, Kering and the Rencontres d'Arles will present the Women In Motion Award to Japanese photographer, Ishiuchi Miyako, at the Théâtre Antique d'Arles. During this special evening, she will present her work and share with the audience her personal journey and her view of women’s place in photography and society in general.

The topic of women's representation permeates Ishiuchi's work in subtle yet powerful ways. She critiques the objectification of women by reclaiming the female body as the subject of her art. Her photographs celebrate imperfections, scars, and aging, the standards of beauty shown by mainstream media. By presenting this intimacy, Ishiuchi invites viewers to confront their perceptions of femininity and womanhood.

In Kyoto in 2023, Kering proudly supported the exhibition Views through my window, a dialogue between Ishiuchi Miyako and Touyama Yuhki, as part of its partnership with Kyotographie International Photography Festival. Recent exhibitions include the solo shows Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2015), Grain and Image (Yokohama Museum of Art, 2017), Ishiuchi Miyako (Each Modern, Taiwan, 2022), Ishiuchi Miyako (Stills, Edinburgh, UK, 2022), and group show Roppongi Crossing (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022).

Kering's commitment to women is at the heart of the Group's priorities and extends, through Women In Motion, to the field of arts and culture. In 2015, Kering launched Women In Motion at the Festival de Cannes to highlight women in cinema, both in front of and behind the camera. The program has since expanded in a major way to photography, but also to art, design, choreography, and music. Since it was created, Women In Motion has become a platform of choice that contributes to changing mindsets and thinking on the place of women, and the recognition they receive, in the arts and culture.

In addition, Kering revealed the third installment of the Women in Motion Lab, supporting projects dedicated to the role of women in photography in France. This first collective exhibition dedicated to this history and curated by Lesley A. Martin, Mariko Takeuchi, and Pauline Vermare and produced by Aperture and Les Rencontres d’Arles, will feature twenty-five photographers, including Rinko Kawauchi, Yurie Nagashima, Kunié Sugiura, Tokuko Ushioda, and Eiko Yamazawa, among others. The 2024 edition, "I’m So Happy You Are Here, Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now" will be shown at the Palais de l’Archevêché in Arles.