Miho Kajioka
Memories of Future (Signed)
Published by Benrido, 2023
Size: 20.5 x 25.5 cm
Portfolio of 6 collotypes
Miho Kajioka creates her works from snapshots. She carries her camera everywhere and intuitively photographs anything she finds interesting. She creates her poetic images through her meticulous darkroom work. Kajioka considers herself more of a painter than a photographer, but her first collotype portfolio, "Memories of the Future," centers on the theme of "girls," and the ephemeral, mysterious sepia image emerges as if tracing a memory. Miho Kajioka was born in Okayama Prefecture in 1973. After studying fine art at the San Francisco Art Institute, she studied painting and photography in Montreal, Canada. Returning to Japan, she found a job as a journalist in Tokyo and resumed her artistic activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Currently based in Paris, she exhibits and publishes her work primarily in Europe. His book So it go (2019) won the Nadar Prize, which recognizes the best work among his photo books published in France throughout the year, becoming the first Japanese to receive this award.