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Yuki Onodera

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Yuki Onodera

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1962-01-01 (Tokyo, Japan)
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Residence History
Tokyo, Japan → Paris, France

Career

Occupations
photographer
Active Years
1992-
Influenced By
Keiichi Tahara

Education

Kuwasawa Design Institute
Country: Japan
Often described as having learned photography largely on her own; developed an independent photographic practice.

Awards

1st Canon Photo New Century — Excellence Award
1992
Organization: Canon
Result: Winner
21st Photography Critics' Award — KODAK Jury Special Prize
1996
Organization: Photography Critics' Award
Result: Winner
17th Higashikawa Prize — New Photographer Award
2001
Organization: Higashikawa Prize
Result: Winner
Japan Photographic Society Newcomer Award
2002
Organization: Japan Photographic Society
Result: Winner
28th Kimura Ihei Photography Award
2003
Work: Camera Chimera
Organization: Kimura Ihei Photography Award
Result: Winner
Nicéphore Niépce Prize
2006
Organization: Nicéphore Niépce Prize
Result: Winner
Art Encouragement Prize (Minister of MEXT) — for the exhibition 'Yuki Onodera: Into the Labyrinth of Photography'
2011
Work: Yuki Onodera: Into the Labyrinth of Photography
Organization: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Art Encouragement Prize)
Result: Winner
27th Higashikawa Prize — Domestic Photographer Award
2011
Organization: Higashikawa Prize
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Camera Chimera

2003 photobook

A photobook compiling works made with box cameras and experimental techniques, exploring visual illusion and layered imagery.

photographic expressionvisual illusionmachine and image

How to Make Pearls

photographic series

A series of crowd photographs taken by placing marbles inside a box camera; uses chance and visual interference to question boundaries between the individual and the crowd.

crowdschancemanipulation of vision

Portraits of Vintage Clothes

photographic series

A series photographing vintage clothes against the sky; creates portrait-like images without people that evoke time and memory.

vintage clothingskynostalgia

Roma‑Roma

stereo photography series

A series photographing two towns of the same name in Sweden and Spain using the left and right lenses of a stereo camera; addresses overlapping place-names and shifts in vision.

sense of placestereoscopic visionduality

Bibliography

  • Camera Chimera (2003)
  • How to Make Pearls
  • Roma‑Roma

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimental photographic techniquesminimalist compositionemphasis on manipulation of vision
Recurring Motifs
vintage clothingskymarblesbox cameracrowdsstereoscopic vision

Legacy

Since the 1990s she has developed a distinctive visual language, receiving high acclaim in Japan and abroad; she has won multiple major photography awards and achieved international recognition.

Archives

  • Yuki Onodera official website (yukionodera.fr)
  • Public Image interview archive

Trivia

  • Moved base to Paris in 1993.
  • Uses experimental techniques such as placing marbles inside a box camera to photograph crowds.
  • One of the few Japanese photographers to win the Nicéphore Niépce Prize.
  • Official website: yukionodera.fr