藤岡亜弥『Life Studies』
発行:赤々舎 Size:H173mm x W257mm Page:192 pages Binding:Swiss binding (codex) Published in September 2025 ISBN:978-4-86541-211-6 |
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About Book
瞬間を編み、生を呼び覚ます。
Life Studies
Aya Fujioka
Originally photographed in New York over a span of five years beginning in 2007, Life Studies is a photobook revisited over a long period, with its images continually re-considered, re-framed, and woven together, revealing layers of significance through the ongoing process of assembly. "They are reflections of my guts," Fujioka remarks, revealing her inner struggles and conflicts at the time.
Moving between the intimacy of the room and the restless streets, Fujioka captures the tremor of light, the presence of people, the solitude that drifts apart from society, and the fluid expressions of gender and desire. Yet the photographs themselves bear little trace of the photographer's personal identity; instead, they invite viewers to see them as moments that could be experienced by anyone in New York, regardless of gender, race, or identity. In doing so, Fujioka blurs the distinction between who stands behind and before the camera, the personal and the collective, the observer and the observed, the intimate and the anonymous, inviting viewers into a subtle and transitional narrative of urban life. Together, these form both a "study of life" and a "sketch of lives"--the vital current running through Fujioka's photographic practice.
The book opens on the streets, wandering through the city with the gaze of an immigrant, weaving together a multitude of scenes before arriving at moments of quiet, intimate confrontation. Because each photograph is a fragment--a snap of life--countless narratives arise, and time and existence are reconfigured anew. Through the paradox of the snapshot, Fujioka achieves a rich, layered form of expression.
Comprising 168 color and black-and-white images, the book concludes with a long text written by the artist herself. Her words drift between reality and fiction, resonating deeply with the photographs through their palpable sense of lived experience. Life Studies quietly yet profoundly illuminates the core of Fujioka's practice, where art and life are inseparable.
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藤岡亜弥 個展「Life Studies」 会期:2025年 9月26日(金)~11月8日(土) 時間:10:00~18:00 会場:KOSHA KOSHA AKIHABARA(東京都千代田区東神田3-2-3 写真弘社5F) 休廊:日、月 関連イベント: 藤岡亜弥 × 姫野希美 2025年9月27日 (土) 15:00~ 藤岡亜弥 × 畠山直哉 2025年10月17日 (金) 18:00~
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藤岡亜弥 出展 「東京都写真美術館 総合開館30周年記念 作家の現在 これまでとこれから」 会期:2025年10月15日(水)~2026年1月25日(日) 時間:10:00~18:00(木・金は20:00まで) 会場:東京都写真美術館 休館:月曜(祝休日の場合は開館し、翌平日休館)、年末年始
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Artist Information
藤岡 亜弥
1972年広島県生まれ。 日本大学芸術学部写真学科卒業。 台湾師範大学語学中心留学。2007 年文化庁派遣海外留学生としてニューヨークに滞在。2012 年に帰国後、2024年まで広島で制作活動を行う。主な作品に「さよならを教えて」「離愁」「私は眠らない」「川はゆく」「アヤ子江古田気分/ my life as a dog」「Life Studies」などがある。
エストニア、フィンランド、イギリス、フランス、スロバキア、ハンガリーなどを巡る1年半に及んだ旅の様々な出会いや経験をもとに制作した作品「さよならを教えて」により2004年にビジュアルアーツフォトアワードを受賞。2010年 「私は眠らない」で日本写真協会新人賞を受賞。終戦後70年が経過した広島のいまをとらえた「川はゆく」で 2016年度第 41 回伊奈信男賞受賞。2018 年林忠彦賞、木村伊兵衛写真賞受賞。
サンフランシスコ近代美術館、金沢21世紀美術館、東広島市美術館に作品が収蔵されている。
Aya Fujioka
Born in 1972 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Fujioka graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1994.
She later studied at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University.
In 2007, she traveled to New York for further studies supported by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. After returning to Japan in 2012, she was based in Hiroshima for several years.
Her major works include Comment te dire adieu, saudade, "I Don't Sleep", "Here Goes River", "Ayako Ekoda-kibun / My Life as a Dog", and Life Studies.
Inspired by encounters in Taiwan, she embarked on an 18-month journey across Estonia, Finland, the UK, France, Slovakia, and Hungary. Drawing from these diverse experiences, she produced Comment te dire adieu, which received the Visual Arts Photo Award in 2004.
Her work "I Don' t Sleep" was awarded the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer' s Award in 2010.
"Here Goes River" , a work capturing present-day Hiroshima more than 70 years after the war, won the Ina Nobuo Award in 2016, as well as the Tadahiko Hayashi Award and the Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2018.
Public Collection:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Higashi-Hiroshima Art Museum
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