I-Photography (Shi-shashin) refers to a Japanese photographic mode that emerged in the 1970s.
A Japanese photographic mode that took shape from the 1970s, taking family, lovers, rooms, the body, memory, and death as its subjects — not as private records but as works that turn the distance between seeing and living itself into form.
I-Photography's core was not the private subject matter — family, lovers, the body — but the claim that the distance between seeing and living could itself become photographic form, turning subjectivity into method rather than confession.
I-Photography (Shi-shashin) refers to a Japanese photographic mode that emerged in the 1970s.*1
On this site, photographers connected to I-Photography (Shi-shashin) appear mainly from 1890–1910s to 1980–1990s, often overlapping with Typological Photography and Documentary.*2
I-Photography (Shi-shashin) often overlaps with Typological Photography and Documentary. Reading those pages together makes it easier to see where method, institution, or critical language begins to diverge.*7
Tokuko Ushioda is a photographer who has used refrigerators, books, and the light and household objects left in the rooms of Gotokuji to photograph the time of those close to …
Mayumi Hosokura works with nudes, portraits, plants, minerals, neon, selfies, and sculpture through color, photobooks, digital collage, and exhibition space. Through NEW SKIN …
Sakiko Nomura is a photographer who has brought together male nudes, night, flowers, rooms, the sea, and scenes of travel through dense blacks and the sequence of the photobook …
He turned his honeymoon into a self-published book and established the term "I-photography" (shishashin). He invented the editorial gesture of connecting the boundaries between …
Born in 1934 and deceased in 2012, Masahisa Fukase is known for intensely personal photography centered on family, his wife Yoko, solitude, and psychic collapse. His major works …