Chihiro Kihara is a Japanese photographer. She was born in 1985 in Fukuoka Prefecture and lives in Fukuoka. She graduated from Doshisha University. At university she got a used film camera and became absorbed in photography. After graduation she taught herself.
In 2021 she won the Grand Prix of the first Fugensha Photography Award and the Grand Prix of the 23rd 1_WALL. In 2018 she received the Special Prize at the Shiogama Photo Festival Award.
Her first photobook is Path of Lights (Fugensha, 2022). Her second, Wonderful Circuit (Fugensha, 2025), is built around a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet. She made the journey after the temple of her partner, a Buddhist monk, rejected their relationship. The book also includes pictures from Fukuoka, Kyoto and Hiroshima.
