Miho Kajioka

Japanese photographer

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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.

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]

Publications

And, where did the peacocks go?. Paris: Them, 2018.^[6]
So it goes. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2019. Edition of 540 copies.
- Second edition. So It Goes, So It Goes. Paris: Them / Ibasho, 2020. ISBN 979-1095424222. Smaller, with a different cover, and new images.^[3]
- Third edition. So it goes, so it goes, so it goes. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2023. With a different cover and additional images.
Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come. France: Iikki, 2021. Edition of 750 copies.
And, do you still hear the peacocks?. Paris: Them / Antwerp: Ibasho, 2022.

Awards

2019: Prix Nadar for So it goes

References

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