Photographers
26 photographers
Ai Iwane
Born in Tokyo, Ai Iwane studied at an off-grid school in Northern California and has worked as a photographer since 1996. Since 2006 she has photographed the ties between Hawaii and Fukushima through Japanese immigrants. Her book KIPUKA won the 44th Kimura Ihei Award and the 44th Ina Nobuo Award. In 2026 she shows with Kikuji Kawada at Japan House London.
Aya Fujioka
Born in 1972 in Hiroshima, Fujioka studied photography at Nihon University College of Art and later studied at the language center of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Her work Here Goes River, on Hiroshima seventy years after the war, received the Ina Nobuo Award (2016), and in 2018 she received both the Tadahiko Hayashi Award and the Kimura Ihei Award. Her work is in the collections of SFMOMA and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Eiko Yamazawa
Born in Osaka in 1899, Yamazawa went to the United States in 1926 and learned photography as an assistant to the American photographer Consuelo Kanaga. She held many solo exhibitions titled What I Am Doing in the 1970s and 80s. Her work is in the collections of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. She died in 1995.
Harumichi Saito
Born in 1983 in Tokyo, Saito has lived in Kumamoto since 2020. He received an Excellence Award at Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2010 and the Photographic Society of Japan's New Photographer Award in 2014. His books include Kando and Kando、 (Akaaka).
Ichiko Uemoto
Born in 1984 in Hiroshima, Uemoto received an Excellence Award at Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2003. Her books include Kanawanai and Kazoku Saigo no Hi.
Karen Sato
Born in 1983 in Kanagawa, Japan. In 2010 she won the Grand Prize of Canon's New Cosmos of Photography. She has held solo exhibitions at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Sendai Mediatheque and elsewhere.
Kazuhei Kimura
Born in 1993 in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kimura lives in Tokyo. He won a Juror's Encouragement Prize at the 19th 1_WALL photography competition and the Grand Prix of IMA next #6. His photobooks include IRON RIBBON and Atarashii Mado (Akaaka).
Kim Sajik
Born in Kyoto, Kim Sajik makes staged photographs of invented stories. Alongside photography she studies traditional Korean dance, exploring what can grow from the trauma passed down through generations of the diaspora. She received the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize (Encouragement Award) in 2021.
Kotori Kawashima
Kawashima graduated in French literature from Waseda University. Kawashima's photobooks include BABY BABY, Mirai-chan, Myojo and vocalise. Kawashima received the 42nd Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for photography and the 40th Kimura Ihei Photography Award.
Masahisa Fukase
Born in 1934 in Hokkaido, Fukase was shown in New Japanese Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1974, and went on to exhibit around the world. His series Ravens is widely regarded as a landmark of Japanese photography. A serious accident in 1992 ended his career, and he died in 2012. Since then, retrospectives have been held at the Rencontres d'Arles (2017) and Foam in Amsterdam (2018).
Masashi Asada
Masashi Asada received the Kimura Ihei Photography Award for this book.
Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoya Hatakeyama is a Japanese photographer from Rikuzentakata, Iwate. His other books on his hometown include Rikuzentakata 2011-2014.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Born in 1940 in Tokyo, Araki is known in Japan by the nickname "Tensai Araki" (Araki the genius) and is one of the most widely watched Japanese artists in the world. He has published more than 500 photobooks, including Sentimental Journey.
Rika Noguchi
From Saitama and based in Naha, Noguchi has made photographs since 1992 and has taken part in many international exhibitions of contemporary art. Her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Centre Pompidou, among others. She is one of the photographers in I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, touring Europe and the United States.
Sayaka Uehara
Born in 1993 in Okinawa, Uehara graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2016. Her series The Others, on memories and scars that surface in the Okinawan landscape, received the Higashikawa Award New Photographer Prize in 2020.
Shinichiro Nagasawa
Born in 1977 in Tokyo, Nagasawa trained under photographer Tamotsu Fujii and became independent in 2006. He began photographing Chichijima in 2008. The Bonin Islanders was shown at Nikon Salon, T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO and the Prix Pictet Japan Award exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
Su Hou-Wen
Born in 1980 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Su lives in Taipei and Tainan. He won the PHOTO GO Award at the Tainan International Photography Festival in 2022.
Takao Hashimoto
Born in 1980 in Kumamoto, Hashimoto graduated from the photography course of Visual Arts Osaka in 2008. He moved to Germany in 2011, exhibits in Japan and abroad, and lives in Berlin.
TSAO Liang-Pin
Born in Hsinchu and based in Taipei, Tsao published his first photobook, Sojourn, in 2015. In 2016 he founded Lightbox Photo Library, which collects and shares Taiwanese photography, and in 2025 he founded the Taiwan International Photography Festival (TIPF). Becoming・Taiwanese is his second photobook.
Various Authors
A collection of texts by curators, critics and researchers, edited from the programme of T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2024.
Yehlin Lee
Born in 1976 in Taipei, Lee studied electrical engineering in Taiwan and completed a post-graduate diploma at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France. He worked in sound art from 2001 and turned to photography, self-taught, in 2011. His work is in the collection of the Art Bank of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture.
Yoshihiko Ueda
Yoshihiko Ueda is a Japanese photographer. His photobooks with Akaaka also include Māter (2022). The Garden of The Camellia is his first film as a director.
Yoshiyuki Okuyama
Born in Tokyo in 1991. He won the Excellence Award of Canon's New Cosmos of Photography in 2011 for Girl, and the photography prize of the Kodansha Publishing Culture Awards in 2016 for BACON ICE CREAM. He also directs commercials, music videos and films.
Yosuke Morimoto
Born in 1982 on Shodoshima, Kagawa, Morimoto graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2003 and later studied under Shingo Wakagi. He received an Excellence Award at the 37th Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 2014.
Yuhki Touyama
Born in 1983 in Chiba, Touyama graduated from Tokyo Visual Arts. She prints her own work in a home darkroom and photographs things that cannot be seen, such as life and death, time and presence. Her first photobook, Kyokaisen 13 (Akaaka, 2008), dealt with the loss of a friend.
Yurie Nagashima
Born in 1973 in Tokyo, Nagashima debuted while still a student with portraits of her family, and later earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She received the Kimura Ihei Photography Award for PASTIME PARADISE. She is one of the photographers in I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, touring Europe and the United States.
