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

A

  • Emi Anrakuji (born 1963), legally blind photographer known for her portraits

F

H

  • Mikiko Hara (born 1967), colour snapshots of people or things in everyday life, often causing feelings of levity or foreboding, people in public spaces
  • 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
  • Ariko Inaoka (active since 1998), photographer
  • Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), contrasty prints including close-ups of the very old, grainy-blurry works, close-ups of the elderly

K

  • Miho Kajioka (born 1973)
  • Mari Katayama (born 1987), self-portraits with textile sculptures
  • Rinko Kawauchi (born 1972), serene, poetic style, ordinary moments in life
  • Aya Kida (born 1974), photographer, winner of the Kimura Ihei Award
  • Fusako Kodama (born 1945), depicted Japan as a nation of high technology, and life in Tokyo
  • Michiko Kon (born 1955), new approach to mainly black-and-white still lifes with images of everything from toothbrushes to timepieces and fish parts[1] black and white prints, sea creatures
  • Yasuko Kotani (born 1962), photographer

M

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, artistic photographer, based in Berlin

O

  • Yoshino Ōishi (born 1944), widely travelled photojournalist, educator
  • Yuki Onodera (born 1962), images of everyday objects such as old clothes, tin cans, birds, houses shining in the darkness, and human figures,[2] living in France
  • Kei Orihara (born 1948), documentary and portrait photographer, has published books on life in New York, and books for children about the disabled, interior portraits, photobooks for children

S

  • Tsuneko Sasamoto (1914–2022), Japan's first female photojournalist, has photographed some of the country's greatest personalities and historic moments[3]
  • Tomoko Sawada (born 1977), feminist photographer, performance artist
  • 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, based in New York City
  • Ryoko Suzuki (born 1970), photographic artist

T

  • Cozue Takagi (born 1985), creator of montages
  • Toyoko Tokiwa (1928–2019), best known for her depiction of the red-light district of post-occupation Yokohama, for a clientele of US servicemen
  • Tokuko Ushioda (born 1940), widely exhibited freelance photographer

W

Y

  • Eiko Yamazawa (1899–1995), portrait photographer and founder of a photography school, own studio
  • 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
  • Shizuka Yokomizo (born 1966), photographer and installation artist based in London
  • Ruiko Yoshida (born 1938), has published several photobooks designed to fight against discrimination towards the poor and blacks, best known for Harlem Black Angels[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ann Elliott Sherman, "Something Fishy", Metro, 17 August 2000. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Yuki Onodera" (2005), The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Lucy Birmingham, "The ‘plucky pioneer’ of photojournalism", The Japan Times, 24 September 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Ruiko Yoshida", Woman.type.jp. (in Japanese) Retrieved 25 February 2013.
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