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= Rinko Kawauchi = Rinko Kawauchi - 川内 倫子 is a Japanese photographer born in 1972. Her work is characterized by depicting the ordinary moments in life through serene poetic pictures.

Biography
Kawauchi was born in 1972. During her years at University she became interested in photography, she graduated in 1993. Her first few jobs were commercial photography for an advertising agency before truly beginning her career as a fine art photographer.Kawauchi tries to think about new ways to see her photographs in hopes of finding new meaning and significance in her work. Through her photo book "Cui Cui" she portrays the memories of her family. The photos were taken over time and encased all aspects of life such as the happiness of childbirth to the heartbreak of death.

At 19 she began making prints of her first black-and-white photographs. Five years later she started printing color photographs. After experimenting with different cameras, she decided to stick to one camera the Rolleiflex, which she still uses.

Kawauchi's art is rooted in Shinto. According to Shinto, all things on earth have a spirit, hence no subject is too small or mundane for Kawauchi's work; she also photographs "small events glimpsed in passing which Is what makes her work so powerful yet delicate. She likes working in photo books because they allow the viewer to engage intimately with her images. Her photographs are mostly in 6×6 format. Besides photographs, Kawauchi also composes haiku poems. She lived for many years in Tokyo and in 2018 moved to the countryside on the outskirts of the city.

Style
Since she began her photographic career, Kawauchi's photographs contained a unique aesthetic. Each picture creates a mood, she is talented at capturing intimate and beautiful moments of the world around her. Her photos often have radiant light sources that give them a dream-like quality. The objectivity of her photographs is continuously changing and being interpreted by her use of soft colors as well as her awareness of the beauty in the most average moments.

Kawauchi chooses to photograph anything that speaks to her whether it be little or small. She focuses on just shooting, photographing everything that attracts her eyes before looking back and thinking about why she was interested in those subjects. Another subject that she talked about in her book, Ametsuchi, was the practice of religious rituals that involved the concepts of time and impermanence. In the book, she depicts Japan's Mount Aso, a sacred site for a Shinto ritual called yakihata, and its volcanic landscape. The ritual is a long-standing tradition dating back about 1,300 years in which farmland is burned yearly to maintain its sustainability for new crops as opposed to using chemicals, and the communities at Aso are among the few that continue this tradition.

Ironically, witnessing essentially the rebirth of farmland takes place, Kawauchi claims that she burned away her old self and was reborn herself.

Awards

 * 2002 Kimura Ihei Award
 * 2009 Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography
 * 2012 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
 * 2013 Minister of Education Award for New Artists
 * 2013 Domestic Photographer Award, Higashikawa Prize, Higashikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan

Publications

 * Hanako. 2001.
 * Hanabi (花火, Fireworks). 2001. Tokyo: Little More, 2002. ISBN 4-89815-053-5.
 * Utatane. 2001.
 * blue. 2003. ISBN 978-4939102-43-1.
 * AILA. 2005. ISBN 978-4902943-10-8.
 * the eyes, the ears. 2005. ISBN 978-4902943-00-9.
 * Cui Cui. 2005. ISBN 978-4902943-02-3.
 * Rinko Diary. 2006. ISBN 978-4-902943-14-6.
 * Rinko Diary II. 2006. ISBN 978-4-902943-17-7.
 * Majun. 2007. ISBN 978-4-902943-19-1.
 * Semear. 2007. ISBN 978-4-902943-20-7.
 * Murmuration. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010. ISBN 978-1-903796-41-2.
 * One Day - 10 Photographers, Heidelberg/Berlin: Kehrer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86828-173-6, edited by Harvey Benge.
 * SNOWFLAKE TWELFTH. 2011.
 * Illuminance. New York: Aperture, 2011. ISBN 978-1597111447.
 * Light and Shadow. 2012.
 * Approaching Whiteness. Tokyo: Goliga, 2012.
 * Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadows. 2012. ISBN 978-4-86152-348-9.
 * SHEETS. 2013. ISBN 978-3981510-53-9.
 * Ametsuchi. New York: Aperture, 2013. ISBN 978-1597112161.
 * Kirakira. 2013. ISBN 978-4-904257-25-8.
 * Gift. 2014. ISBN 978-4907519-05-6.
 * Light and Shadow. Kanagawa, Japan : Super Labo, 2014
 * The river embraced me. 2016. ISBN 978-4-907562-04-5.
 * Halo. New York: Aperture, 2017. ISBN 1597114111.
 * A New Day. 2018. ISBN 978-4-7630-1809-0.
 * When I Was Seven. Hehe, 2019. ISBN 978-4908062292.
 * As It Is. Marseille, France: Chose Commune, 2020. ISBN 979-10-96383-17-7. With text in English and French.

Solo exhibitions

 * 1998: Utatane, Guardian Garden, Tokyo.
 * 2006: Rinko Kawauchi, The Photographers' Gallery, London.
 * 2007: Semear, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo
 * 2010: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, during Brighton Photo Biennial, New Documents, curated by Martin Parr, Brighton, UK.
 * 2011: Illuminance, Foil Gallery, Tokyo.
 * 2012: Light and Shadow, Traumaris Photography Space, Tokyo.
 * 2012: Illuminance, Ametsuchi, Seeing Shadow, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo.
 * 2013: Illuminance, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich.
 * 2013: Ametsuchi, Aperture Gallery, New York.
 * 2014: Ametsuchi, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne.
 * 2014: New Pictures 9: Rinko Kawauchi, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis.
 * 2014: Ametsuchi, Main Gallery, Lesley University College of Art and Design.
 * 2014: Light and Shadow, Colissimo, Hyogo.
 * 2015: Illuminance, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 20 March – 5 July 2015.
 * 2017: Halo, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich.

Group exhibitions
2005: Autumn 2005, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Netherlands, 10 September – 4 December 2005 2008: Creatures from the Collection and Other Themes, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Netherlands, 31 May – 31 August 2008 2010: Summer Loves, Huis Marselle, Museum for Photography, Netherlands, 5 June – 29 August 2010 2011: Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, curated by David Elliott, Japan Society, New York. With Kawauchi and Makoto Aida (会田誠), Manabu Ikeda (池田学), Tomoko Kashiki (樫木知子), Haruka Kojin (荒神明香), Kumi Machida (町田久美), Yoshitomo Nara (奈良美智), Kohei Nawa (名和晃平), Motohiko Odani (小谷元彦), Hiraki Sawa (さわひらき), Chiharu Shiota (塩田千春), Tomoko Shioyasu (塩保朋子), Hisashi Tenmyouya (天明屋尚), Yamaguchi Akira (山口晃), Miwa Yanagi (やなぎみわ) and Tomoko Yoneda (米田知子). 2015: In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 5 April – 12 July 2015. 2018: A Beautiful Moment, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Netherlands, 9 June – 2 September 2018.

Collections
Kawauchi's work is held in the following collections:


 * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco: 7 works.
 * Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
 * Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo