Born in 1974, he is a photographer who produces photographic works that capture ordinary views of subjects such as towns, forests, and stationary objects, together with a distinctive tranquility and sense of tension. Such works include “Mahiru – In the Middle of the Day” (Seigensha Art Publishing, 2001) and “LIGHT AND GRAVITY” (Little More, 2009). In recent years, he has also participated in group exhibitions, such as “Time Flows: Reflections by 5 Artists” (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020), “Uncertain Landscape” (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, 2018), “In the Here and Now” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017), and “19th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2016).

She was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1989 and graduated from the Kyoto Seika University Graduate School of Art with a master’s degree. In addition to producing photographic works by photographing her own creations, she also creates works such as woodblock prints and drawings. Her latest exhibitions include “Assembridge NAGOYA 2020” (Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya Customs, 2020), the solo exhibition, “METAL GLUE/Slow Drawing Garden” (New Space PA, 2023), “Ginza Curator’s Room #005 Angel’s Perch” (Shibunkaku Ginza, 2023), and “2015 New Cosmos of Photography.” She was awarded the VOCA Encouragement Prize in 2017 and the Gunma Biennale for Young Artists Encouragement Prize in 2019.

She was born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983 and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts with a doctoral degree. Through the principles of photography, she experiments with the manifestation of memories that are like latent images dwelling in objects through the various phenomena of light. Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition, “HIRAKU Project Vol.16: Suzuki Nozomi ‘The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope’” (Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art, 2024), “Latent Scenery” (Arts Maebashi, 2022), and “Photography of Innocence and of Experience: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol.14” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2017). She was awarded the VOCA Encouragement Prize in 2016 and was a Pola Art Foundation grant to study in England in 2018.

He was born in Tokyo in 1983 and started writing poems in 2000 when he was a high school student. After participating in the Waseda Tanka-kai poetry group, he currently is affiliated with the tanka poem magazine, “pool.” In 2013, he published a collection of poems, “Yagate Akinasu e to Itaru” (At Last, the Time has Come to Harvest Autumn Eggplant; Minato no Hito). His works have also appeared in publications such as “Sakurazensen Kaika Sengen Born after 1970 Gendai Tanka Nihon Daihyo” (Declaring the Start of the Cherry Blossom Front: Born after 1970 Representative Contemporary Japanese Tanka) edited by Yamada Wataru, and “Hatsunatsu Mizuumi Bunkoki after 2000 Gendai Tanka Kuronikuru” (Early Summer Lake Spectroscope: after 2000 Contemporary Tanka Chronicle; both publications by Sayusha) edited by Seto Natsuko. Dozono Masahiko, Nagai Yu, and Toki Tomohiro keep a blog that reviews poetry criticism, “Tanka no Peanuts.”

She was born in Tokyo in 1990. While carrying out research and field work, she aims to express her own experiences through observations, recordings, and narratives, and tackles subjects from the approach of how to express that impossibility through recording media. Her recent activities include the solo exhibition, “Logbook of a Sea Goddess” (Towada Art Center, 2022), the online project, TWO PRIVATE ROOMS – A Circle of Reading” (2022 to present), and “The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2018). She was awarded the 28th Nakahara Chuya Prize for the anthology of poems, “Done Being Nurtured” (thoasa, 2022). She also manages the practitioner art collective honkbooks.

She was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1980. In 2008, she joined the haiku magazine, “Muku” and studied under Ishida Kyoko. She won the Hokuto Award in 2015, and has published a collection of haiku poems, “Fukan” (Seal; Bungaku no Mori). In 2016, she was awarded the 39th Newcomer Award from the Association of Haiku Poets. Her collection of haiku poems, “Mezzotint” (Furansudo) is slated for publication in September 2024.