Ariko Inaoka

Ariko Inaoka (Japanese: 稲岡亜里子, born Kyoto 1975) is a Japanese photographer, best known for her long-term project of photographing a pair of Icelandic twins. She is also the owner of Honke Owariya, a long-established soba restaurant in Kyoto.

Youth

Born in Kyoto in 1975, Inaoka went to a high school in San Diego from 1992 and studied at Parsons School of Design from 1995, graduating in 1999. She started working at magazines and catalogs in Paris, London, and Japan, mainly in fashion photography. She moved back to Tokyo in 2006.[1]

Photography

Inaoka has worked as a fashion photographer. From 1998 to 2002 she worked on The Number after 10 with Claudia Hill[2] In 2000, Photo District News named her one of the PDN/Kodak 30 under thirty[3] Her earlier work was done under the single name Ariko (in Roman letters).[n 1]

Inaoka is known for her years-long photography of a pair of identical twins[4][5] in Iceland, which she has called "the place for my creativity and inspiration."[6] She first met Erna and Hrefna (Icelandic for "eagle" and "raven" respectively[7]) in 2006, but only started photographing them in 2009, when they were nine.[6] She was drawn to the twins as a subject because of their "telepathic" connection.[8] The photography continued until 2017.[9]

Other subjects Inaoka has photographed include landscapes and travelers.[10]

Restaurant ownership
Entrance to the soba shop Honke Owariya

Inaoka returned to Kyoto in 2011. She is the current and sixteenth owner of Honke Owariya, founded in 1465 and the oldest soba restaurant in Kyoto[11] and perhaps the whole of Japan.[1][12] She follows this tradition from her father, the fifteenth owner, and her grandfather, the fourteenth.[13]

Exhibitions
  • Sól. Trax gallery (Hokuto, Yamanashi), August–September 2008.[14]
  • Sól. Rocket Gallery (Jingūmae, Tokyo), February 2009.[15]
  • Om. Gallery Target (Jingūmae, Tokyo), April 2011.[16][17][18]
  • Opposite～異なる2つのインド = Opposite India. Slant gallery (Kanazawa), April–May 2011. With Yayoi Arimoto (在本彌生).[19][20]
  • One Plus One Is Three. 2013 Shin Kong Mitsukoshi International Photography Festival = 2013新光三越國際攝影聯展, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi (Taipei), 2013. With Sean Lotman.[21]
  • Erna and Hrefna. Revela't 2018 (El Festival Internacional de Fotografía Analógica de Vilassar de Dalt), Fábrica Cal Garbat, Vilassar de Dalt, 11–27 May 2018.[9][22]
  • Parallel Crossings. Ibasho Gallery (Antwerp), January–March 2020. (With Sean Lotman.)[23][24]

Books
  • Key of Life: Hasegawa Kyoko Photobook. Tokyo: Pengin Shobō, 2003. ISBN 4-901978-09-8. Photographs of Kyōko Hasegawa by "Takey" or "Takay" (according to the impression) and "Ariko".
  • Sól. Tokyo: Akaaka, 2006. ISBN 978-4-903545-27-1. By "Ariko".[n 2]
  • クリスチャニア自由の国に生きるデンマークの奇跡 (Kurisuchania: Jiyū no kuni ni ikiru Denmāku no kiseki) = The Free Spirits of Christiania. Tokyo: Wave, 2017. ISBN 978-4-86621-089-6. Text by Kana Shimizu (清水香那), photographs by Inaoka.[n 3]
  • Eagle and Raven. Tokyo: Akaaka, 2020. ISBN 978-4-86541-111-9. By Inaoka.[n 4]

Notes
  1. Sól (published 2006) is by Ariko; The Free Spirits of Christiania (published 2017) is by 稲岡亜里子 (i.e. Ariko Inaoka).
  2. Akaaka's page about Sól.
  3. Wave's page about The Free Spirits of Christiania.
  4. Akaaka's page about Eagle and Raven.

References
  1. "550年間父たちが守ってきたものを学び終えたら、新たな時代に挑戦したい". Studio Yoggy. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  2. "The Number After 10". Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  3. LaSala, Anthony (2000). "30 under thirty, Young Photographers to Watch". Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  4. Adams, Tim (22 Nov 2014). "Ariko Inaoka's photographs of devoted Icelandic sisters – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  5. Adams, Tim (22 November 2014). "Never such devoted sisters: In Iceland with Erna and Hrefna". The Observer (The Guardian). Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  6. Teicher, Jordan G. (6 November 2014). "The magical life of one pair of Icelandic twins". Slate. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  7. "Ariko Inaoka spent seven summers in Iceland photographing twin sisters", Juxtapoz, 23 April 2020. Accessed 22 July 2020.
  8. Koman, Tess (10 November 2014). "Seven magical photos of identical Icelandic twins". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  9. "Erna and Hrefna", Revela't, 2018.
  10. Blazo, Eve Marie. "Ariko Inaoka: Coming Home". Metal Magazine. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  11. 京都で一番古い蕎麦屋 本家尾張屋 / 京都 中京区 1465年創業 (寛正六年), 老舗食堂, 5 December 2018.
  12. アイスランドに住む双子の少女の成長を撮り続けた写真集「Eagle and Raven」, Asahi Shimbun Digital [ and ], 30 March 2020. Accessed 22 July 2020.
  13. Myogaya, Nobuhisa (19 March 2020). "Honke Owariya: Inside the Kyoto soba restaurant that was founded in 1465 (and is still crazy popular)". Live Japan. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  14. "Ariko 'Sol'", Tokyo Art Beat.
  15. "Sól". Archived from the original on February 10, 2009.
  16. "Om." Tokyo Art Beat, 2011.
  17. 写真家・稲岡亜里子(Ariko)写真展「Om」-Gallery Targetにて開催, Mynavi, 9 March 2011.
  18. Ariko個展「Om」@Gallery Target, 2011.
  19. "Opposite India", Slant Gallery.
  20. 『Opposite～異なる2つのインド』金沢Slantにて写真展開催迫る, Transit, 2011.
  21. "One Plus One Is Three", Shin Kong Mitsukoshi.
  22. 2018 programme, Revela't, 2018.
  23. "Parallel crossings: Ariko Inaoka and Sean Lotman", Ibasho Gallery.
  24. "Parallel crossings: Ariko Inaoka and Sean Lotman", Paris Photo.
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