Rinko Kawauchi is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese photographer, shooting mostly in 6×6 format. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life.

Kawauchi became interested in photography while studying at Seian College of Art and Design. She first worked in advertising for several years before embarking on a career as a fine art photographer.

Major exhibitions

• Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France, 2004.
• Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2005)
• The Photographer's Gallery, London (2006)
• Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2007)
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (2010)

Publications

• Hanako (2002)
• Utatane (2002)
• Hanabi . Tokyo: Little More, 2002. ISBN 4-89815-053-5. No text. Color photographs of fireworks over buildings, over spectators, by themselves in the sky, and so forth.
• Aila (2004)
• The eyes, the ears (2005)
• Cui cui (2005)
• Semear (2007)
• Murmuration (2010)
• One Day (2010) -- One of the books in One Day Ten Photographers edited by Harvey Benge
• Illuminance (2011)

External links

• Notes on artists at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain (Paris). Contains a short paragraph about Kawauchi. Kawauchi's camera phone photo diary.
• Interview with Rinko Kawauchi by Masakazu Takei, an editor and the representative of FOIL, a publisher in Tokyo.