Rinko Kawauchi

Untitled (from the series “Cui Cui”) 2005

Rinko Kawauchi was born in Shiga, Japan, in 1972. She lives and works in Tokyo. Rinko graduated from Seian University of Art and Design in 1993 and started working as a photographer on a freelance basis in 1997. In 2001 she simultaneously released a series of three photographic books - UTATANE, HANABI, and HANAKO, which created an overnight sensation in the photography world in Japan. Further publications of Rinko Kawauchi, which should be mentioned, are AILA and CUI CUI. Kawauchi has joined and held many group and solo exhibitions both at home and abroad to date. She photographs her everyday life, whatever is around her, and it is through her selection and composition that she creates a magical feeling from her own environment. In some of her books she presents her images with her own poems.

 

 Untitled (from the series "Aila") 2003

 

  Untitled (from the series "the eyes, the ears") 2005

 

 Untitled (from the series "Utatane") 2001

 

 Untitled, 2009

 

 Untitled (from the series "Cui Cui") 2005

 

 Untitled (from the series "Aila") 2003

 

 Untitled (from the series "Aila") 2003

 

 Untitled (from Aila) 2004

 

 Untitled (from the series "Utatane") 2001

 

 Untitled (from the series "Aila") 2003

 

Untitled (from the series "Utatane") 2001

 

 Untitled (from the series "Aila") 2003

 

 Untitled (from the series: Uatatane), 2001

 

 Untitled, 2007