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Seven decades of Japanese photography are rewritten through women who photographed bodies, streets, domestic life and identity from perspectives too often left outside the canon.
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Japanese photography is internationally celebrated, but its history has often been narrated through male photographers. This exhibition rewrites that story through 28 women working from the 1950s to the present. Documentary images, intimate diaries, experimental photography, self-portraiture, installation and photobooks reveal radically different ways of looking at postwar society, sexuality, domestic life and the body. The generational span is especially valuable: visitors can watch both Japan and the photographic medium change over seven decades.
Artists including Ishiuchi Miyako, Rinko Kawauchi, Mao Ishikawa, Hiromix and Mari Katayama represent very different generations and artistic positions. Together they demonstrate that there is no single “female Japanese photography”, but a remarkable diversity of approaches historically underrepresented outside Japan.
