Aperture - Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer who began working in advertising and then embarked on a career in fine art photography. Her work is recognised as being serene and poetic and she captures ordinary moments in her life.

These are some of my favourite pieces of her work...

I love Kawauchi's work. The images are really peaceful and show life and death in the most natural way. The pastel tones make them look like a dream or memory. It really is like visual poetry.

 

Her work is a good example of using shallow depth of field. She often creates a shallow depth of field so that our eye is drawn to the subject that she wants us to be looking at while the blur of pale background sets the mood she intends to provoke.