Asako Narahashi

is a Tokyo-based Japanese photographer. She is famous for her approach of taking photo from outside coastline with splitting frame of water and land or sky, creating a new perspective on Japan landscape. Her photographs are held in a permanent collection in San Francisco Museum of Art and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

In 1990, Narahashi opened the gallery 03FOTOS (1990-2001) to present her works. In 1996, she co-founded the photography magazine Main (1996-2000) with Ishiuchi Miyako.

Major exhibitions

• "half awake and half asleep in the water", Festival Images Vevey, Switzerland (2016)
• "Coming Closer and Getting Further Away", Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo (2009)
• "half awake and half asleep in the water", Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2008)

Publications

• NU E. (1997)
• Asako Narahashi: Funiculi Funicula. Photographs 1998–2003 (2004)
• Half Awake Half Asleep in the Water. (2007)
• Ever After. (2013)
• Gips. (2018)
• Dawn in Spring. (2023)
• I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (2024)

Notes

External links

• Article in the blog of The New York Times In Focus | Asako Narahashi.