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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

Ishiuchi Miyako photographs completely different things, yet her 50 years of work all looks unmistakably hers

Blurred close-up detail of dental models or casts showing fine textural detail.

Ishiuchi Miyako photographs abandoned buildings. She photographs scars on human skin. She photographs old Kimono fabric. She photographs lipstick. She photographs her own water-damaged prints.

But there's something that connects all her photography. Something that makes it unmistakably hers. It's not what she's photographing; it's how she photographs. She has an eye for how time leaves marks on things. With how worn objects tell stories through their texture and decay.

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