, better known as Hiromix (, ''Hiromikkusu''), is a Japanese photographer and artist.

Biography

Hiromix won the 11th New Cosmos of Photography (, ''Shashin Shin-seiki'') award in March 1995. She was nominated by

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for a series of photographs called ''Seventeen Girl Days.'' Her photographs depicted life from a teenager's perspective. She was also a judge for the Cosmos of Photography contest from 2011 to 2015. In 1996, Hiromix published her first book ''Girls Blue.'' She became known in the West with her book ''Hiromix,'' edited by the French photography critic Patrick Remy and published by Steidl in 1998. In 2000, she was awarded the

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for her book ''Hiromix Works.'' She has published several other photography books that are concerned with identity, community, gender and the everyday. Alongside photographers like Yurie Nagashima and

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* ''Start of Spring, Radiance of the Heart,'' Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo (2009) * ''St. Valentin Special , Room of Love,'' Eye of Gyre, Tokyo (2010) * ''The Wonder of Love and Time,'' Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo (2015)

Group exhibitions

* ''Superflat Exhibition,'' Tokyo (1999) * ''Gazes that Define the Era: 30 Years of the

1975–2005,'' Kawasaki City Museum, Tokyo (2005) * ''Shoot'' (Rizzoli, U.S.), Parco Gallery, Tokyo (2009) * ''A Room in Which To Contemplate Love,'' No Man's Land, Tokyo (2009) * ''40 Years of the

, 1975–2015,'' Kawasaki Museum, Tokyo (2015) * ''Takashi Murakami Collection,'' Tokyo and other cities (2016)

Books

* ''Girl's Blue'' (1996) * ''Japanese Beauty'' (1997) * ''Hikari'' (1997) * ''Hiromix Paris'' (1998) * ''Hiromix'' (1998)

Notes

External links

*Ono, Philbert.
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. Profile at PhotoGuide Japan. *Romano, Gianni.
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. PhotoArts Journal. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiromix Living people Artists from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese photographers 20th-century Japanese women photographers 21st-century Japanese women photographers 21st-century Japanese photographers 1976 births People from Suginami