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List of Japanese women photographers

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This is a list of women photographers who were born in Japan or whose works are closely associated with that country.

Contents

A

  • Ariko Inaoka (active since 1998), photographer
  • Aya Kida (born 1974), photographer, winner of the Kimura Ihei Award

    • C

  • Cozue Takagi (born 1985), photographer

    • E

  • Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), artist, photographer, own studio

    • F

  • Fusako Kodama (born 1945), depicted Japan as a nation of high technology, and life in Tokyo

    • H

  • Mikiko Hara (born 1967), colour snapshots of people or things in everyday life, often causing feelings of levity or foreboding
  • Hiromix (born 1976), life from a teenager's perspective and photo books on identity, community, gender and the everyday

    • I

  • Hisae Imai (1931–2009), specialized in the photography of horses
  • Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), contrasty prints including close-ups of the very old

    • K

  • Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), serene, poetic photography
  • Kei Orihara (born 1948), interior portraits, photobooks for children
  • Michiko Kon (born 1955), new approach to mainly black-and-white still lifes with images of everything from toothbrushes to timepieces and fish parts
  • Kunié Sugiura (born 1942), based in New York City

    • M

  • Miyuki Matsuda (born 1961), an actor who has published photography of nudes
  • Michiko Kon (born 1955), black and white prints, sea creatures
  • Michiko Matsumoto (born 1950), portraits of artists and dancers living in various countries
  • Mika Ninagawa (born 1972), brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish, landscapes
  • Mikiko Hara (born 1967), people in public spaces
  • Miwa Yanagi (born 1967), photographic artist
  • Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), grainy-blurry works, close-ups of the elderly

    • N

  • Yurie Nagashima (born 1973), portraits, including portraits of herself and her family in the nude, street photography, still lifes
  • Mika Ninagawa (born 1972), brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish and landscapes, commercially successful in fashion and advertising
  • Rika Noguchi (born 1971), landscape photographer

    • O

  • Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), widely travelled photojournalist
  • Yuki Onodera (born 1962), images of everyday objects such as old clothes, tin cans, birds, houses shining in the darkness, and human figures
  • Kei Orihara (born 1948), documentary and portrait photographer, has published books on life in New York, and books for children about the disabled

    • R

  • Rika Noguchi (born 1971), artistic photographer, based in Berlin
  • Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), poetic style, ordinary moments in life
  • Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), photojournalist
  • Ryoko Suzuki (born 1970), photographic artist

    • S

  • Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), Japan's first female photojournalist, has photographed some of the country's greatest personalities and historic moments
  • Shima Ryū (1823–1899), earliest known Japanese woman photographer, photographed her husband in 1864, later opened a studio in Kiryū
  • Mieko Shiomi (1909–1984), abstraction and realism, known for her monochrome compositions
  • Kunié Sugiura (born 1942), creator of photograms

    • T

  • Cozue Takagi (born 1985), creator of montages
  • Toyoko Tokiwa (born 1930), best known for her depiction of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, for a clientele of US servicemen
  • Tomoko Miyamoto (born 1960), photographer
  • Tomoko Sawada (born 1977), feminist photographer, performance artist
  • Toyoko Tokiwa (born 1930), red-light district of Yokohama
  • Tsuneko Sasamoto (born 1914), Japan's first female photojournalist

    • Y

  • Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), portrait photographer and founder of a photography school
  • Miwa Yanagi (born 1967), staged events with women of various ages, frequently using the computer to alter the image in strange ways, several published series including Elevator Girls
  • Yasuko Kotani (born 1962), photographer
  • Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), has published several photobooks designed to fight against discrimination towards the poor and blacks, best known for Harlem Black Angels
  • Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), photojournalist, educator
  • Yuki Onodera (born 1962), photographer, living in France
  • Yurie Nagashima (born 1973), contemporary artist, photographer

    • References

    List of Japanese women photographers Wikipedia
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