KAJIOKA, Miho

About the Japanese photographer, Miho KAJIOKA (b. 1973) 

Miho KAJIOKA studied fine art in the United States and Canada and started her career as a journalist in her native country Japan. It was after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that she was reconnected to her photographic art. Her artistic practice is in principal snapshot based; she carries her camera everywhere and intuitively takes photos of whatever she finds interesting. These collected images serve as the basic material for her work in the darkroom where she creates her poetic and suggestive image-objects through elaborate, alternative printing methods. Miho KAJIOKA regards herself more as a painter/drawer than as a photographer. She feels that photographic techniques help her to create works that fully express her artistic vision. Her images evoke a sense of mystery in her constant search for beauty. The focused, creative and respectful way in which she uses the medium of photography to creating her works seems to fit in the tradition of Japanese art that is characterized by the specifically Japanese sense of beauty, wabi sabi. In her series 'so it goes', published as photo volume in two print runs and a reprint of the 2nd print run which is different from the 1st edition, she presented works relating to the concepts of time, memory and place. The volume was awarded the 'Prix Nadar' in 2019. Miho KAJIOKA lives in Kyoto, her work has been exhibited in France, the Netherlands, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and Spain.

Photo volumes by Miho KAJIOKA

'Time Travel' (2019); 'So it goes' (2019, 2020); 'Tanzaku' (2021); 'Flowers Bloom' (2021); 'and, do you still hear the peacocks?' (coming in 2022)