Biography
Akiko Takizawa was born in 1971 in Fukuoka city in Japan and live and work in London.
She studied at MA Fine Arts, Royal College of Arts in 2003-2006.
Her recent shows are Lauréates 2014 du Prix HSBC pour la Photographie,
La Maison de la Photographie de Lille, La Galerie Seine 51 Paris, and L’Arsenal de Metz.
Solo show “Where We Belong” Gallery Toraya,Kyoto (International Photo fair Kyotographie 2014.
BIP 2014 (9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts) Belgium, Liege
‟Apple Room” at gallery Tosei in Tokyo, 2013, ‟Over the Parched Field” at Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation in 2012,and BIP 2014 (9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts) Belgium, Liege
She was awarded for “Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2014”,
‟Hitotsubo-ten” Japanese photography competition in 2007
‟Bloomberg New Contemporaries“ U.K in 2006.
Her first Photo book “Where We Belong” was published by Actes Sud, France 2014
About her work//
These photographs follow the transient souls that drift in amongst the flickering light and dark, during the blizzard night, air heavy with the spring bloom, before disappearing once more.
Through the technique of Collotype printing with its 150 year of history, the carbon black images illuminates the time we are living.
Ces photographies s’attachent à suivre les âmes éphémères qui apparaissent à travers les vacillations changeantes de la lumière, un jour pesant pendant la floraison printanière ou encore une nuit d’hiver pendant une tempête de neige, pour disparaître à nouveau. Grâce à la technique de la collotypie qui remonte à plus de 150 années, les impressions à l’encre noire illustrent avec grâce l’époque dans laquelle nous vivons.
