“The world has been always made of many different layers – even before the disaster. And there have been always problems, and beautiful things have always remained beautiful…”
~ Miho Kajioka
Japanese photographer, Miho Kajioka was born in Okayama, Japan and came to San Francisco in the 1990's to study painting. However once she began attending San Francisco Art Institute she found herself drawn to photography. Thoughtful in all aspects of her practice she embraced a careful process and developed her own distinct photographic language and signature, small scale, tea-stained prints. For Miho, each image is a canvas and she works backwards removing parts of the image until a small detail becomes the entire focus. The gelatin prints are then stained with tea - a common technique in Japan. The result, beautiful unique prints of focused moments.
