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  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, […]

• Japan, Photography

  Ninagawa Mika

  10.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ninagawa Mika’s palette of highly saturated color threatens to make your eyes bleed from its beauty and grandiosity. I first encountered her Goldfish series a few months back but did not notice who made them. I’m glad to have chanced upon her site today.

  All images © Nanigawa Miwa
  She recently had her directorial debut for Sakuran, […]

• Japan, Photography

  Takahiro Kaneyama

  09.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Takahiro Kaneyama is a Japanese photographer based in New York. Apparently he graduated from SVA in 2001. His series, While Leaves Are Falling, is an introspective body of work. After his grandmother died, he began taking photos of the remaining women who raised him - his schizophrenic mother and two aunts as an act of […]

• Japan, Photography

  Chie Yasuda

  09.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chie Yasuda’s photos taken in old gardens and museums are ‘pervaded with a unique sense of aura that has accumulated densely just in that particular space’.
  Curator Mitsuda Yuri on her works:
  When Chie Yasuda travels, she stops to look at the obscure, abandoned corners of old botanical gardens and museums. She often notices things deteriorating within […]

• Japan, Photography

  Yuki Aoyama

  09.14.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yuki Aoyama’s images of school girls and men in business suits suspended in mid-air are rather funny. He manages to cause viewers to believe, albeit for a moment, that the subjects defy gravity.

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama
  See more images of people jumping in his gallery.
  Reminds me of my school’s entire ad […]

• Japan, Photography

  Alao Yokogi

  09.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Alao Yokogi has a varied portfolio on his website and a blog [in Japanese] dedicated to his work. He was born in the Chiba Prefecture in 1949, studied at the Tokyo University in the late 60s. He recently published his book - Teach Your Children 1967-1975, a chronicle of his life as a student.

  © Alao […]

• Japan, Photography

  Shin Suzuki

  09.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shin Suzuki has got some interesting pictures up on his portfolio. His images are ironic and some of them remind me of Daido Moriyama-san’s work.

  © Shin Suzuki - Friends series

  © Shin Suzuki - Wallow series

  © Shin Suzuki - Under Construction series

• Japan, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Miwa Yanagi

  08.30.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was thinking of writing a post on Miwa Yanagi when I spotted a feauture of her in Eyemazing. Stacy Oborn from the space in between (I miss her posts!) wrote about Yanagi back in 2005.

  Miwa Yanagi’s photographs are instantly captivating. The Japanese artist’s bold and fantastical imagination carves out a unique photographic language and […]

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