Kentaro Kumon is a photographer born in 1981. He works for magazines, books and advertising. He also makes his own work in Japan and abroad.
Much of his own work looks at rural Japan and at landscapes shaped by people. He says the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 made him want to know the place where he lives. After it, he began to travel through rural regions.
His books include Tagayasuhito (Heibonsha, 2016), Koyomi Gawa (Heibonsha, 2019), Hikari no Chikei (Heibonsha, 2020), Nemurushima: The Sleeping Island (Kehrer, 2022) and Bara no hana-saku ie (Heibonsha, 2025).
Bara no hana-saku ie is about the former Kondo Residence in Tokyo's Asagaya district. Kumon photographed the house in 2007. It was destroyed by fire in 2009.
He received the New Face Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2012.
