Chieko Shiraichi
Shimakage
Published by Sokyu sha, 2015
Book Size 23,4 x 23,5 cm
Pages 72 pages + 43 images
Binding Hard Cover
First edition - 2nd printing 2019
Signed by the artist
Chieko Shiraishi was born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. She studied photography and darkroom technique at a workshop given in Funabashi-shi, Chiba Prefecture, by Katsuhito Nakazato and Kazuo Kitai. Since 1998, she has presented some twenty solo exhibitions, in Japan, in Italy and in France (Shimakage, Mind’s Eye, 2016). She also participated in the Tbilisi Photo Festival in 2016. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts and the Ashikaga Museum of Art.
Chieko Shiraishi has published two books of photographs, Saboten to Shippo (Cactus and Tail) in 2008, and Shimakage (Island Shadow) in 2015, and co-authored Umi ni Shizunda Machi (Towns that Sank into the Sea), published in 2011. She lives and works in Tokyo