'I had never taken a photo prior and thought that if I wanted to keep my job, I had to be willing to learn.
The former worked for a small publishing company until she was asked to photograph an author. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hitomi Watanabe (born in 1943) and Miyako Ishiuchi (born in 1947) – winner of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award (2014) – became photographers somewhat by accident. Hitomi Watanabe and Miyako Ishiuchi, two pioneering Japanese female photographersĪfter discovering photography by chance in the 1970s, the two artists have made a name for themselves in a male-dominated environment.īy Philippe Pons (Tokyo (Japan) correspondent) Published on at 04h15, updated at 08h38 on May 2, 2022
