Mika Ninagawa
Thursday, 13 August 2009
The term “onnanoko shashinka” loosely translates to “girlie photographers”. It is used to describe an immensely popular group of young Japanese female photographers whose work is largely characterized by simple subjects reflecting their everyday life captured with a point-and-shoot aesthetic. Mika Ninagawa has been described as second generation “onnanoko shashinka,” a very skillful photographer with perhaps a more mature approach to her work – but still with a wonderful mix of fun and flair. Her pictures are large and ablaze with colour - a very masterful use of saturation to create an exuberant yet surreal, dream-like, poetry-filled universe that I so adore.
All the pictures here are from a series called “Liquid Dreams”, which capture swimming fish with their orange bodies and movements that are in sharp contrast to the stillness of the water.