Mikiko Hara

is a Japanese photographer.

Biography Hara was born in Toyama in 1967. She graduated from Keio University in 1990 with a degree in literature, and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996.

Photography Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident. . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere."

Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes

Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Is as It. Gallery le Deco (Shibuya, Tokyo), 1996. Hatsugo no shūen . Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004. Hysteric Thirteen publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 2005. Humoresque. Appel (Kyōdō, Tokyo), 2006. Kumoma no atosaki . Gallery Tosei (Nakano, Tokyo), May 2008. Blind Letter. Third District Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), June 2010. In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009. Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery (New York), September-November 2017. Kyrie Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, September - October 2019

Other exhibitions Puraibētorūmu 2: Shin sekai no shashin hyōgen = Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (Mito, Ibaraki), April–June 1999. Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January–May 2003. Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, China), 2004. Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4 = . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–April 2006. A Private History. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 – January 2008. Sangyō toshi Kawasaki no ayumi 100-nen . Kawasaki City Museum (Kawasaki), 2007. Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai: Shōwa kara kyō made . Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Yokohama), December 2009. Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s–2000. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April–June 2009. In Focus: Tokyo. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014.

Collections The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris) Getty Museum Change. New York: Gould Collection, 2016. . With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print.