Miho Kajioka

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Miho Kajioka (born 21 February 1973) [1] is a Japanese photographer, living in Kyoto. [2] In 2019, she received the Prix Nadar for the book So it goes.

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Early life and education

Kajioka was born in Okayama, Japan. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, and at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. [3]

Work

"Kajioka creates minimalist work that draws on the Japanese tradition of 'wabi-sabi' – the appreciation of beauty in imperfection and transience – and the Zen/Taoist belief that the essence of an object exists in the space inside and around it". [4] [5]

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References

  1. "Miho Kajioka - Biography". Peter Fetterman Gallery.
  2. "miho kajioka - Overview". The Photographers' Gallery.
  3. 1 2 Grieve, Michael. "Miho Kajioka's Lightness of Being". British Journal of Photography.
  4. "Feather report: artists' images of birds – in pictures". The Guardian. July 13, 2023.
  5. Spence, Rachel (14 June 2018). "Photo Basel 2018: western dreams of wabi-sabi". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  6. "And, where did the peacocks go?". GUP Magazine. December 4, 2017.