Japanese Photography

This interview series focuses on Japanese Photography. Watch established photographers who redefined the medium after World War II and still-emerging contemporary practitioners reflect on cultural landscapes and personal truths.

Photographer Lieko Shiga standing outside in front of a row of trees, holding up a photograph and pointing to it.

Lieko Shiga on Kitakama village and the 2011 tsunami

Sohei Nishino’s maps trace more than the city

Nobuyoshi Araki: Journey through life and death

Akiyoshi Taniguchi’s meditations on photography

Rinko Kawauchi contemplates the small mysteries of life

Tomoko Sawada’s self-portraits create familiar characters

Eikoh Hosoe: Does photography reflect truth?

Nobuyoshi Araki’s “more is more” approach to photography

Daido Moriyama on the essence of photography

Kikuji Kawada on the Atomic Bomb Dome and postwar Japan

Ishiuchi Miyako’s early life near Yokosuka’s U.S. military base

Keizo Kitajima in the former USSR

Hiromi Tsuchida: Documenting Japan’s past and present

Ishiuchi Miyako: What is a scar?

Issei Suda on the drama of photography

Daido Moriyama on social rebellion in 1960s Japan