Asako Shimizu
Asako Shimizu is a Tokyo-based professional photographer. Her interest lies in representing that it is comforting to touch the rich energy of nature, which helps to free oneself from closed patterns of thinking. The expression combines the philosophical spirit inspired by the Asian area of her birth. In her photographing process, she prefers “coincidences in photographing” mixed with her own premeditation or plan. For example, shooting pictures in stormy or snowy weather sometimes brought unexpected beautiful results.
For her, a camera is a tool that could give away some tiny messages about the world she feels. It dawned on her that she could be “a mediator” between a subject and her camera lens. The world is diverse. She also tries not to judge whilst photographing so that she best succeeds in expressing the spiritual feeling emanating from her subjects as a go-between.
'Asako Shimizu’s unique approach towards photography is derived from her belief in the original power of camera to visualize emotions which beyond our visual perceptions. As an artist, she disciplines her self-express impulsion and instead let a machine interacts to the world and focus images of unexpected figures and values inherited to a subject. This objective sense makes the series of works narrative and fantastic providing the pure joy of integrating ourselves into the images.' - Minako Ishii, Art curator
Shimizu was born in 1969 in Tokyo and currently resides in Kanagawa, Japan. She started her career at a Japanese publishing company called “Magazine House” as a staff photographer after graduating from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography in 1993. In 2006, the series “On Her Skin”received an award from New Cosmos Photography, sponsored by Canon, by judge Mr Nanjo Fumio, a chief director of Mori Museum. For the first time in Europe the series has been featured at Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, 2013. Based in Tokyo, Asako Shimizu has been participated in numerous exhibitions including a group show at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
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C’est quoi pour vous la photographie?
What is photography for you? Various artists, 2023softcover, 302 pagesRead more
Publisher: Chibi
Dimensions: 240x200 mm -
Finding A Pearly Light - Asako Shimizu
LAST AVAILABLE COPIES Shimizu, Asako, 2020hardcover, 120 pagesRead more
Publisher: kukui books
Dimensions: 265 × 220 mm -
“Finding a Pearly Light” Special Edition - Asako Shimizu
Shimizu, Asako, 2020hardcover in a cardboard box, 120 pagesRead more
Publisher: kukui books
Dimensions: 322 x 322 mm