is a Japanese

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. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in

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. She lives in

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Biography

Onodera works with large images (some reaching 8 meters) and wants her work to be "tangible." In her series "Portrait of Second-Hand Clothes" Onodera used the clothes from " Christian Boltanski's installation 'Dispersion,' a large pile of used garments meant to evoke death and loss." She has worked in Paris since 1993, and she has had solo exhibits around the world. Institutions that hold her work include: The Getty Museum, the

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, and The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Awards

* 2001, New Photographer

Higashikawa Prize The has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan since 1985. The Overseas and Domestic Photographer prizes are of 500,000 yen and the New Photographer and Special prizes are of 300,000 yen. The work of t ...

* 2002, Kimura Ihei Award * 2006, Prix Niépce

Publications

* ''How to Make a Pearl,''

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, 2002 * ''Transvest,'' Nazraeli Press, 2004,

References

Also see

* ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. Japanese photographers 1962 births Living people Japanese women photographers {{Japan-photographer-stub