Publisher/Aperture

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This book is a collection of works, "I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now," published at the time of the Arles International Photography Festival in July 2024. Postwar Japanese photography has been covered in many places, but most of the work has been by male photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama. This book throws a stone into that trend and focuses on the trajectory left by Japanese female photographers. It introduces a total of 26 photographers, including pioneers active before the war, Toyoko Tokiwa and Eiko Yamazawa, Tamiko Nishimura, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Mao Ishikawa, who ran as if chasing the backs of Araki and Moriyama, Yurie Nagashima, Mika Ninagawa, and Hiromix, who led the girly photo boom of the 1990s, Rinko Kawauchi and Mikiko Hara, who have attracted worldwide attention since the 21st century, and Rieko Shiga, Momo Okabe, and Hiroko Komatsu, who are expected to be the future leaders of Japanese photography. The book is over 400 pages long and contains copies of his portfolio and representative photo books, as well as extensive commentary by the curators. It is scheduled to be exhibited around the world for several years.