Ishiuchi Miyako (1947- ) Born in Gunma Prefecture, she was brought up in Yokosuka. She began studying textile design in the Design Department of Tama Art University but left in 1970. Her "Yokosuka Story" (1977) and her "APARTMENT" series the following year received a lot of attention and in 1979 she won the 4th Kimura Ihee Award. In 1999 she won the 11th Photographic Society of Japan Award and the 15th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize. Her work is widely recognized both at home and abroad, her pictures being included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and other institutions. She was invited to take part in the "Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky" exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in N.Y. in 1994, in the "Art and Environment — from the ecological point of view" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka in 1998, and also in the "History of Japanese Photography" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; In 1999 she held a solo exhibition at the National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, entitled, "Time Textured in Mono-chrome". Her most famous series of works are: "1.9.4.7" (1990); "HIROMI:1955", featuring the poet, Ito Hiromi (1995); "1906 to the skin", featuring the Butoh artist, Ohno Kazuo (1995); "Chromosome XY", featuring close-ups of the male body (1995); "scars", which took the theme of injuries carved into the body; "Mother's", which showed keepsakes of her mother (2002); etc. She currently lives in Yokohama.