Ariko Inaoka Explained

Ariko Inaoka (Japanese: 稲岡亜里子, born Kyoto 1975) is a Japanese photographer, best known for her long-term project of photographing a pair of Icelandic twins. She is also the owner of Honke Owariya, a long-established soba restaurant in Kyoto.

Youth

Born in Kyoto in 1975, Inaoka went to a high school in San Diego from 1992 and studied at Parsons School of Design from 1995, graduating in 1999. She started working at magazines and catalogs in Paris, London, and Japan, mainly in fashion photography. She moved back to Tokyo in 2006.[1]

Photography

Inaoka has worked as a fashion photographer. From 1998 to 2002 she worked on The Number after 10 with Claudia Hill[2] In 2000, Photo District News named her one of the PDN/Kodak 30 under thirty[3] Her earlier work was done under the single name Ariko (in Roman letters).[4]

Inaoka is known for her years-long photography of a pair of identical twins[5] [6] in Iceland, which she has called "the place for my creativity and inspiration." She first met Erna and Hrefna (Icelandic for "eagle" and "raven" respectively[7]) in 2006, but only started photographing them in 2009, when they were nine.[8] She was drawn to the twins as a subject because of their "telepathic" connection.[9] The photography continued until 2017.[10]

Other subjects Inaoka has photographed include landscapes and travelers.[11]

Restaurant ownership

Inaoka returned to Kyoto in 2011. She is the current and sixteenth owner of Honke Owariya, founded in 1465 and the oldest soba restaurant in Kyoto[12] and perhaps the whole of Japan.[13] She follows this tradition from her father, the fifteenth owner, and her grandfather, the fourteenth.[14]

Exhibitions

Books

Notes

  1. Web site: 550年間父たちが守ってきたものを学び終えたら、新たな時代に挑戦したい. 2015-04-20. Studio Yoggy. 2018-03-07.
  2. Web site: The Number After 10 . dead . 2013-06-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120222162345/http://claudiahill.com/collaborations/tna10/ . 2012-02-22 .
  3. Web site: LaSala . Anthony . 30 under thirty, Young Photographers to Watch . 2000 . dead . 2013-06-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130624145657/http://www.pdngallery.com/gallery/30under30/intro.html . 2013-06-24 .
  4. Sól (published 2006) is by Ariko; The Free Spirits of Christiania (published 2017) is by (i.e. Ariko Inaoka).
  5. News: Adams . Tim . Ariko Inaoka's photographs of devoted Icelandic sisters – in pictures . 18 July 2020 . The Guardian . 22 Nov 2014.
  6. News: Adams . Tim . Never such devoted sisters: In Iceland with Erna and Hrefna . 18 July 2020 . The Observer (The Guardian) . 22 November 2014.
  7. "Ariko Inaoka spent seven summers in Iceland photographing twin sisters", Juxtapoz, 23 April 2020. Accessed 22 July 2020.
  8. Web site: Teicher . Jordan G. . The magical life of one pair of Icelandic twins . Slate . 6 November 2014 . 18 July 2020.
  9. Web site: Koman . Tess . Seven magical photos of identical Icelandic twins . Cosmopolitan . 10 November 2014 . 18 July 2020.
  10. "Erna and Hrefna", Revela't, 2018.
  11. Web site: Blazo . Eve Marie . Ariko Inaoka: Coming Home . Metal Magazine . 18 July 2020.
  12. http://shinise.tv/honke-owariya/ 京都で一番古い蕎麦屋 本家尾張屋 / 京都 中京区 1465年創業 (寛正六年)
  13. https://www.asahi.com/and_w/20200330/1318520/ アイスランドに住む双子の少女の成長を撮り続けた写真集「Eagle and Raven」
  14. Web site: Myogaya. Nobuhisa. 19 March 2020. Honke Owariya: Inside the Kyoto soba restaurant that was founded in 1465 (and is still crazy popular). live. 12 April 2021. Live Japan. https://web.archive.org/web/20200719011607/https://livejapan.com/en/in-kansai/in-pref-kyoto/in-nijo-castle_kyoto-imperial-palace/article-a2000017/ . 2020-07-19 .
  15. "Ariko 'Sol'", Tokyo Art Beat.
  16. Web site: Sól . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090210065002/http://www.rocket-jp.com/exhibition/data/2009/sol/ . February 10, 2009 .
  17. "Om." Tokyo Art Beat, 2011.
  18. https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20110309-a090/ 写真家・稲岡亜里子(Ariko)写真展「Om」-Gallery Targetにて開催
  19. http://www.akaaka.com/events/ev-110402-ariko.html Ariko個展「Om」@Gallery Target
  20. "Opposite India", Slant Gallery.
  21. https://www.transit.ne.jp/contents/info/2011/04/slantpe.php 『Opposite～異なる2つのインド』金沢Slantにて写真展開催迫る
  22. "One Plus One Is Three", Shin Kong Mitsukoshi.
  23. https://revela-t.cat/2018/en/programme/ 2018 programme
  24. "Parallel crossings: Ariko Inaoka and Sean Lotman", Ibasho Gallery.
  25. "Parallel crossings: Ariko Inaoka and Sean Lotman", Paris Photo.
  26. Akaaka's page about Sól.
  27. Wave's page about The Free Spirits of Christiania.
  28. Akaaka's page about Eagle and Raven.

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