Miho Kajioka is a Japanese photographer and journalist.
In 2018 she published "And, Where Did the Peacocks Go?" with the(M) éditions, an intimate project about the Tōhoku tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
In 2019, she publishes "So it Goes", a project around time and memory, still with the(M) éditions and in collaboration with IBASHO Gallery; that book was awarded the photobook-of-the-year "Prix Nadar" in France in 2019. A second simplified edition titled "So it Goes So it Goes" was published in 2020.
In 2021, she publishes "Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come" with IIKKI Books, a project that includes a music collaboration with the British artists Ian Hawgood et Craig Tattersall.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Presentation by IBASHO Gallery: " Miho Kajioka was delighted and very surprised that her book so it goes won the French Prix Nadar in 2019. This book was published by the(M) éditions & IBASHO in a limited edition of 500 and was quickly sold out. Kajioka regretted that not more people could see or own her so it goes book. She has therefore requested us...
Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
.Sold out. Published in March 2021, Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come is a collaboration between Japanese photographer Miho Kajioka and British musicians Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall. This book is already sold out by the publisher, before its actual release! We are offering IIKKI's books since 2018 and we are now also offering the music in physical...
And, Where Did the Peacocks Go?
.Sold out. Presentation by the(M) éditions: " « Right after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident, I found a blog about peacocks that were left in the evacuation zone, within the 20km limit. I started imagining those peacocks, walking around the empty town with their beautiful wings spread. The image I had in my mind seemed so far away from what was going...