©Asako Narahashi

Participating artists: Michiko Kon, Tokuko Ushioda, Asako Narahashi, Yurie Nagashima

I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE

JAPANESE WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE 1950S TO NOW

May 24 － September 7, 2025

11 am – 6 pm

Monday closed

Place：Fotografie Forum Frankfurt（Frankfurt, Germany）

Artists: 

Hara Mikiko (1967), Hiromix (1976), Ishikawa Mao (1953), Ishiuchi Miyako (1947), Katayama Mari (1987), Kawauchi Rinko (1972), Komatsu Hiroko (1969), Kon Michiko (1955), Nagashima Yurie (1973), Narahashi Asako (1959), Ninagawa Mika (1972), Nishimura Tamiko (1948), Noguchi Rika (1971), Nomura Sakiko (1967), Okabe Momo (1981), Okanoue Toshiko (1928), Onodera Yuki (1962), Sawada Tomoko (1977), Shiga Lieko (1980), Sugiura Kunié (1942), Tawada Yuki (1978), Tokiwa Toyoko (1930-2019), Ushioda Tokuko (1940), Watanabe Hitomi (1939), Yamazawa Eiko (1899-1995) and Yanagi Miwa (1967).

The exhibition is curated by Lesley A. Martin, Takeuchi Mariko and Pauline Vermare

and is produced by Aperture in partnership with Rencontres d’Arles, with support

from Kering | Women In Motion, Ishibashi Foundation, Anne Levy Charitable Trust,

and 1970 Japan World’s Exposition Memorial Fund. Production coordinated in

Japan by Masako Sato, Contact, Tokyo.

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I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE: JAPANESE WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE 1950S TO NOW, APERTURE, 2024.