[The Guardian] The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst

The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst

​The ​Japanese actor turned ​photographer ​seeks an element of chance in her ethereal scenes from everyday life

International interest in Japanese photography has tended to focus on male photographers; a new book featuring 25 Japanese women practitioners, I’m So Happy You Are Here, aims to redress that balance. The collection takes in the history of Japanese women photographers with particular emphasis on those working from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Many of the early street-photography pioneers documented the postwar realities of Japan, particularly the ways that women’s bodies had been effectively colonised by the male gaze of American servicemen stationed in Tokyo and elsewhere. By the 1990s, when this picture was taken by Hara Mikiko, some of those concerns had evolved.

I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now is published by Aperture

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