About Chizu Ono
Born 1970. Chizu Ono is a Japanese photographer.
is a Japanese photographer.
Ono was born in Akita Prefecture. She studied interior design at Tama Geijutsu Gakuen (an affiliate of Tama Art University that closed in 1992), graduating in 1991 to work as a designer. She stayed in France from 1995 to '96, returning to work again as a designer but pursuing photography in her spare time.
In 1997 her portfolio of black-and-white photographs of manhole covers and the like in Paris, Un curriculum vitĂŠ , was exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and won a special prize in the second Tokyo International Photo-Biennale (, Dainikai TĆkyĆ Kokusai Shashin BiennÄre).
With her husband, Grégoire Dentan, Ono runs a design company, Atelier Grizou.
Published work TĆkyĆ Kokusai Shashin BiennÄre: Dainikai: Sono tayĆsei o megutte . Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1997.
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