15 Facts About Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi HonFRPS is a Japanese photographer.

Rinko Kawauchi first worked in commercial photography for an advertising agency for several years before embarking on a career as a fine art photographer.

Rinko Kawauchi has mentioned that she continues to work the advertising job.

Rinko Kawauchi often thinks about new ways to see her photographs, allowing her to continue to find new meaning and significance in her work.

In 2004 Rinko Kawauchi published Aila; in 2010 Murmuration, and in 2011 Illuminance.

Rinko Kawauchi's art is rooted in Shinto, the ethnic religion of the people of Japan.

Rinko Kawauchi sees her images as parts of series that allow the viewer to juxtapose images in the imagination, thereby making the photograph a work of art and allowing a whole to emerge at the end.

Rinko Kawauchi likes working in photo books because they allow the viewer to engage intimately with her images.

However, upon being invited to the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010, Rinko Kawauchi first photographed digitally and began taking photos that were not square.

Rinko Kawauchi lived for many years in Tokyo and in 2018 moved to the countryside on the outskirts of the city.

Since she began her photographic career, Rinko Kawauchi's photographs contained a unique aesthetic and mood, capturing intimate, poetic, and beautiful moments of the world around her.

Rinko Kawauchi focuses on just shooting, photographing everything that attracts her eyes before looking back and thinking about why she was interested in those subjects.

Ironically, after witnessing essentially the rebirth of farmland take place, Rinko Kawauchi claims that she burned away her old self and was reborn herself.

Rinko Kawauchi traveled to Izumo, Japan to witness a ritual that involves the lighting of sacred flames to welcome the gods.

Rinko Kawauchi went to the Hebei province of China to see new year celebrations, including a 500 year old tradition of throwing molten iron at the city walls to make their own fireworks.