Iwauko Murakami

Iwauko Murakami is a Japanese photographer born in Sendai in 1986 and currently based in Tokyo. She completed her Master’s degree in Photography at Musashino Art University in 2012 and has developed a practice focused on the relationship between identity, memory, and perception. Her work often explores the tension between what is visible and what remains hidden, using photography to question how we understand ourselves and others. She received the 23rd Miki Jun Award for her series Known Unknown in 2022. (Website)