Each has walked their own path.
Now, here, their gazes meet in one place.

In recent years, Japanese photography has drawn considerable international attention, but the figures held up as its leading names have markedly tended to be men. The summer of 2024 saw the publication of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, a bilingual English and French volume devoted to the women who have played vital roles in Japanese photography from the 1950s to the present. A companion exhibition of the same name opened at Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles and has since continued on an international tour. Both the book and the exhibition have been acclaimed as landmark undertakings that retrace the history of Japanese photography from a fresh angle.

The Bunkamura Museum of Art is delighted to present this exhibition in Japan with an expanded version featuring more artists and a broader selection of works, bringing together 30 women photographers in total. Ahead of its own relocation and expansion several years from now, the museum stages this exhibition in its home district of Shibuya, a neighborhood teeming with individuality and diversity, and invites visitors to reconsider our world through photography. Beyond photography in the narrow sense, the show gathers some 200 works spanning installation, collage, moving image, and more. The artists address themes such as memory, the body, the everyday, and gender, each approaching her subject in a singular way.