ABOUT
Award
2025: T3 New Talent (Japan)
2018: PHOTO ESPANA Best International Photography Book of the Year (Spain)
2018: San Jose Photo open call-honorable mention (Uruguay)
2017: Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Fund-Finalist
2017, Aperture First Photobook -Shortlist(US)
2017, PHOTOLUX Photoboox Grandprix(Italy)
2017, CORTONA ON THE MOVE dummy award -shortlist top3 (Italy)
2017, Kaunas Photo Grandprix, Kaunas photo star (Lithuania)
2017, LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD ARLES -shortlist (France)
2017, Kassel Dummy Award -shortlist (Germany)
2017, FUAM dummy book award -shortlist (Turkey)
2016, Harridan Award -the Juror’s Choice (Japan)
2016, Ibasho Gallery, Belgium -Shortlist(Belgium)
Solo Exhibitions
2025.08: ”The Tide’s Gift” at Kana Kawanishi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2023.02: “HOJO” at Kana Kawanishi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018.11: "The Restoration Will" at Galeria Miejska Arsenał by Pix.House (Poznan, Poland)
2018.03: "The Restoration Will" at Spazio Labo (Bologna, Italy)
2017.12: publish launch"The Restoration Will" at Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo, Japan)
2017,9: "The Restoration Will" at KAUNAS PHOTO GALLERY(Lithuania)
2017,3: "The Restoration Will" at Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo, Japan)
2014.4: The Bonds of Parents and Child, Niigata Nippo Media ship( Niigata, Japan）
2012,5: “Madam of Onagawa,” Tohoku Electric Power Co. Green Plaza (Sendai, Japan)
2011.8: “The father’s look and the daughter’s gaze, ” Fujifilm Photo Salon, Traveling exhibition (Tokyo, Sendai, Osaka)
Group Exhibitions
2025.10: “The Tide’s Gift” at T3 New Talent (Tokyo, Japan)
2025.05 Répliques 11/03/11, Landskrona Foto（Sweden)
2024.12: SKY Ⅶ “Layers of Time: Tracing the Memories of Onagawa”, SONY Imaging Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2024.10: “HOJO” at T3 Photo ASIA, Kana Kawanishi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2024.07: Répliques 11/03/11 at Espace Van Gogh, Les Rencontres d'Arles (France)
2024.07: TRANSCENDENCE by KYOTOGRAPHIE, VAGUE gallery, Les Rencontres d'Arles (France)
2024.02: “HOJO” at Artnow projects (Switzerland)
2023.09: “HOJO” at UNSEEN(Amsterdam, Nerdeland)
2022.12: SKY V “The requiem in March” (SONY Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2022.04 KYOTOGRAPHIE "10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers" (Kyoto, Japan)
2021.07 Biennale de Photographie en Condroz (Condroz,Belgium)
2020.07 “Twilight Daylight” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
2018.09 SIPF Singapore International Photography Festival（DECK, Singapore)
2018.6: Foto Leggend (Roma, Italy)
2018.3: "Photobook as an object / Photobook who cares process showcase."
(Engine Room Gallery, Wellington）
2018.3: "Again See" Zhongshan Art Museum, curated by Kurt Tong(China)
2017.12: "The Restoration Will" at PHOTOLUX (Lucca, Italy)
2016.9: "photobook As Object" at Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo, Japan)
2016.8: "Focus Japan" by Kuala Lumpur International Photography Award at White box (KL, Malaysia)
2015.6: "Turning Point" at Project Basho (Philadelphia, USA)
2012.3: “Two photographers in a wish for reconstruction,” Portrait Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2011,5: “The Day and After – Memory of ONAGAWA: Sponsored by Hug Japan”, AIGA Gallery New York (N.Y., U.S.A.)
Book
2024.07: “Répliques 11/03/11 des photographes Japonais face au cataclysme, ATELIER EXB(France) ISBN : 9782365114035
2022.04: “HOJO” T&M Projects (JAPAN) ISBN 978-4-909442-31-4
2018.11 "The Place to belong" (Pix.House)
2017.11: "The Restoration Will" Ceiba Editions(ITALY) ISBN978-88-941960-4-7
2017.3: "The Restoration Will" self-published
2012.3: “Onagawa, SasakiPhotoStudio – From March 11, 2011, and beyond,” March 2012, Ichiyosha, Inc., ISBN 978-4-87196-049-6
Artist residency
2018.11 Pix.House (Poznan, Poland)
2018.6 Docking Station ( Amsterdam, NL)
Workshop
2018.03 “The Photo Book your next step”/ 2 days at Spazio Labo (Bologna, Italy) with Eva-Maria
Kunz from Ceiba Editions.
2017.06 “bookbinding class”/1 day at Auckland Festival of Photography ( New Zealand )
Gallery
2022: Kana Kawanishi Gallery (Japan)
2016: Ibasho Gallery (Belgium)
Museum
2020: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Japan)
2018: V&A' Museum permanent collection(England)
National Art Library collection number 803.AU.0001
2018: Zhongshan Art Museum(China)
Artist residency
2018.11 Pix House (Poznan,Poland)
2018.6 Docking Station ( Amsterdam, NL)
Workshop
2024.03 Canon Photographic Expression Lecture (Tokyo, Japan)
2021.07 Making Dummy workshop/5days at Tokyo Institute of photography(Tokyo, Japan)
2020.07 Making Dummy workshop/5days at Tokyo Institute of photography(Tokyo, Japan)
2018.03 “The Photobook Your next step”/ 2 days at Spazio Labo (Bologna, Italy) with Eva-Maria Kunz from Ceiba Editions.
2017.06 “bookbinding class”/1 day at Auckland Festival of Photography ( New Zealand )
ABOUT
Mayumi was born in 1977 in Onagawa, Miyagi and now reside Tokyo, Japan. She works as a visual storyteller to find and create personal narratives. She was born and raised in a family who ran a photo studio founded by her grandfather in 1930 in the city of Onagawa. She studied at Nihon University, College of Art Department of Photography.
March 11, 2011. On this day an incident which changed her life has occurred. Her hometown Onagawa was destroyed by the tsunami and her parents went missing. She captures them as an individual and not just a faceless figures, and leave the photographs as proof of their lives.
In 2014-2015, She has supported with Alejandro Chaskielberg, who is Argentina Photographer, as local location coordinator and professional support assistant in "Otsuchi Future Memories".
In 2016, She participated a workshop "Photobook As Object" by Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel. She has developed a book with them,