is a Japanese photojournalist. Ōishi was born in

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on 28 May 1944.Tomoe Moriyama (), "Ōishi Yoshino" (), ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ). Text in Japanese only, despite the alternative title in English. Seeing Melanesian art while at

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had a big effect on her, as did a visit to

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and

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in 1966. After graduating in photography, she became a freelance photojournalist,Profile
of Ōishi, Nikon Corp. Accessed 2010-11-03. working in west Africa, southeast Asia, and Europe. In 1971 she held an exhibition in the

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of photographs of a Ghanaian child growing up in Nagano; she then spent three years photographing

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. She worked on portraiture, and documented the effects of the

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in Cambodia, the effects of wartime dioxin in Vietnam, ''

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'' in the

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, and more. Ōishi's work on Vietnam won her the Domon Ken Award. In both 1982 and 1989 she won the Annual Award from the

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.List of awards
PSJ. Accessed 11 December 2010. She has taught at

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. Her work is in the permanent collection of the

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Books by Ōishi

*''Itoshi no Nyūginia'' (). Tokyo: Gakushū-kenkyūsha, 1978. On New Guinea. *''Hana modashi: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' (). Tokyo: Buronzu-sha, 1979. *''Onna no kuni ni natta Kanbojia'' (). Tokyo: Ushio Shuppansha, 1980. On Cambodia. *''Mukoku no tami: Kanbojia no shōgen'' (). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1981. On Cambodia. *''Papua-jin: Ima seki-jidai ni ikiru'' (). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1981. On Papua. *''Wani no tami: Meraneshia geijutsu no hitobito'' (). Tokyo: Tōjusha, 1983. On Melanesia. *''Shōnen Papanī'' (). Tokyo: Yayoi Shobō, 1983. On a Ghanaian child in Nagano. *''Oki no kuni'' (). Tokyo: Kumon Shuppan, 1984. . On the

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. *''Shōgen suru tami: Jūnen ato no Betonamu sensō'' (). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1984. . On Vietnam. *''Okinawa ni ikiru'' (). Tokyo: Yōbisha, 1986. On Okinawa. *''Okinawa no genzō: Uchi to soto no sōkoku'' (). Naha: Nirai-sha, 1988. . With Masanori Nakahodo (). On Okinawa. *''"Yoru to kiri" o koete: Pōrando kyōsei shūyōjo no seikansha-tachi'' (). Tokyo: NHK, 1988. . On the survivors of German Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland during World War II. *''Yoru to kiri wa ima'' () / ''Those Who Survived the Concentration Camps.'' Tokyo: Yōbisha, 1988. . *''Sobieto henreki: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' (). Tokyo: NHK, 1991. . On the Soviet Union. *''Kanashimi no Sobieto: Minzoku o aruku'' (). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1991. . On the Soviet Union. *''Ano hi, Betonamu ni kare-hazai ga futta: Sensō no kizu-ato o mitsumetsuzuketa shinjitsu no kioku'' (). Tokyo: Kumon Shuppan, 1992. . On Vietnam. *''Okinawa: Datsuwa no jidai'' (). Naha: Nirai-sha, 1992. . On Okinawa. Text by Takeshi Miki (). * (). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. . *''Kamera o kata ni mita sekai'' (). Messēji 21. Tokyo: Rōdō-junpō-sha, 1993. . *''Hiroshima hanseki no shōzō: Yasuragi o motomeru hibi'' (). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1995. . On Hiroshima. *''Chiisa na kusa ni'' (). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1997. . *''Kakki afurete nagai sensō no ato: Betonamu'' (). Ajia no kodomo-tachi. Tokyo: Sōdo Bunka, 1997. . On Vietnamese children. *''Okinawa wakanatsu no kioku'' (). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1997. . On Okinawa. *''Inochi no ki: Ajia no hitobito to shizen'' (). Tokyo: Sōdo Bunka, 1998. . *''Betonamu rin to: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' () / ''Vietnam after the War.'' Tokyo: Kodansha, 2000. . *''Kosobo hakai no hate ni: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' () / ''Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo.'' Tokyo: Kodansha, 2002. . *''Afuganisutan senka o ikinuku: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' () / ''Afghanistan: Life under Fire and the Sword.'' Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2003. . *''Kosobo zetsubō no fuchi kara asu e'' (). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2004. . On Kosovo. *''Kodomo ikusayo no naka de: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' (). Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2005. . On children. *''Tamashii to no deai: Shashinka to shakaigakusha no taiwa'' (). Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2007. . Conversations with the sociologist Kazuko Tsurumi (). *''Kurokawa-nō no sato: Shōnai ni idakarete'' (). Tokyo: Seiryū Shuppan, 2008. . With text by Akiko Baba (). On the Kurokawa nō theatre of

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( Yamagata). *''"Fu-hatsudan" to ikiru: Inori o oru Raosu'' (). Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2008. . On Laos. *''Shimura no iro: Shimura Fukumi, Shimura Yōko no senshoku'' () / ''Colors of the Shimuras.'' Tokyo: Kyūryūdō, 2009. . On the

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of Fukumi Shimura and Yōko Shimura, and with text by them. *''Sore demo emi o'' (). Tokyo: Seiryū, 2011. . *''Fukushima Fukushima: Tsuchi to ikiru: Ōishi Yoshino shashinshū'' (). Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2013. . On Fukushima Prefecture after the tsunami.

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Dreaming of a Return Home to Sudan
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