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• Japan, Contemporary, Photography

  Miwako Iga

  01.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Miwako Iga’s Madame Cucumber uses toy dolls as models to depict various scenes of society and family.
  The dolls in Iga’s works are cheap, colorful, and emotionless. However, they are in a situation which represents serious and antagonizing aspect of life, which is the reality of our modern society. Such a gap evokes laughter and at […]

• Japan, Books, Photography

  Eyes of an Island

  12.31.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Shomei Tomatsu, Untitled, Tokyo, 1969. From the series Protest. © Shomei Tomatsu
  Intrigued by Japanese photographers? Bewildered by how they see things? Then Marc Feustel’s Eyes of an Island may interest you. Christmas may be over but the end of the year means that your birthday would be coming soon. =) Lens culture has got an […]

• Japan, Competition, Photography

  The Ueno Hikoma Awards

  12.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [all images © respective owners]
  The 8th annual Ueno Hikoma Awards, a photography contest organized by the Kyushu Sangyo University aims to discover and nurture young photographers. This year, it saw 1758 works in the adults section and 2309 entries in the high school/junior high school section. [via TAB]
  The winning works can be found here. Fantastic […]

• Japan, Photography

  Sato Shintaro

  10.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sato Shintaro’s large format pictures of Japan’s cityscapes at night are pretty interesting. His entire series was shot from emergency exit stairs, of which he says:
  I am fascinated by the power of unconsciousness of townscape when looking down from a little higher point. The town is constructed by the necessity, not for the purpose […]

• Japan, Photography

  Lieko Shiga

  10.14.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Japanese-born Lieko Shiga lives and works in the Netherlands now. Her stunningly eerie images from the series Lilly manages to create an unreal sensation of being in viewers. Drawing inspiration from paranormal photographs popular in the early days of photography, Lieko shot these images of residents staying in a block of council flats in East […]

• Japan, Photography

  Masumi Kawamura

  10.12.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I find Masumi Kawamura’s works to be ever so melancholic, hinting at hidden layers of fear and longing.

  [all images © Masumi Kawamura]
  I like her stuff perhaps due to the many similarities between our works. It’s hard to quantify but perhaps somewhere far away, we dreamt the same dream.
  I’m totally diggin’ music from the Icelandic […]

• Japan, Photography

  Noguchi Rika

  10.11.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Japanese-born Noguchi Rika now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her works have a quiet truth about them; straddling between existentialism and mysticism.
  From Metropolis:
  In Noguchi’s images, we are taken to places we have seen before, to ideas we understand, and we’re asked to stare and see them as she sees them—images of the latent possibilities […]

• Japan, Photography

  Rinko Kawauchi

  10.09.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I believe that Rinko Kawauchi is one of Japan’s more recognized female photographers. Her dreamy square-format images are delightful and uplifting to look at. She manages to capture beauty in the most mundane in life: an egg, a watermelon, an ant. It’s like looking at the world through a child’s eyes, ever so curious. There […]

• Japan, Photography

  Junko Takahashi

  10.09.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tokyo-based photographer, Junko Takahashi, recently published a book of photographs on receptionists.
  Junko on her work:
  “In today’s society, most people exist, consciously or unconsciously, in a variety of organizations and organized spaces. So, if I could photograph those people who can usually be found in such spaces, the results would interestingly reflect reality.”

  [all images © […]

• Japan, Photography

  Hiromix

  10.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hiromi Toshigawa, otherwise known as Hiromix, redefined the way female photographers are viewed in Japan. In 1995, her series, Seventeen Girl Days, won Canon’s 11th New Cosmos of Photography award. It provided viewers an unconventional look at the life of a teenage girl, random moments captured and edited into a 36-page photobook. In September 1996, […]

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