Please join us at The Photographer’s Gallery in London for a conversation between artists Katayama Mari and Tawada Yuki moderated by curator Lena Fritsch, celebrating the opening of Japanese Women Photographers: From the 1950s to Now. The discussion will explore themes of identity, embodiment, transformation and self-representation, giving insight into the possibilities of image-making today.
Japanese Women Photographers: From the 1950s to Now offers a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon—an electrifying expansion of our understanding of Japanese photographic history, but also of photo history writ large. This restorative survey presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the experiences and perspectives of women on their lives and on Japanese society, and showcases their creativity through key images, installation-based works, video, and photobooks.
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Image: Kawauchi Rinko, The Eyes, the Ears, 2002–4; from I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (Aperture, 2024). © Kawauchi Rinko