Hideka Tonomura
author · photographer
Hideka Tonomura (殿村任香) is a Japanese photographer born in 1979. She graduated from the Broadcasting and Filmmaking Department of the Osaka Visual Arts School and began working as a photographer in 2002. In 2003 she won the Nikon Juna21 prize. For more than twenty years she also worked as a hostess in Tokyo entertainment districts, including Roppongi, Ginza, Akasaka and Kabukicho. In Kabukicho the other hostesses called her Yukari. That experience is the basis of her book They Called Me Yukari, published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013 (new edition 2023). Her work deals with identity, love, beauty and femininity in a raw, direct style. Her other books include mama 恋 love (2008), Orange Elephant (2015), cheki (2018), Die of Love (2018), Shining Woman #cancerbeauty (2020), Toxic (2022) and Soul Trip (2024). Her work is in the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, and she has shown in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Kyoto and Arles.[1,2,3]
- hostess culture in Kabukicho
- love
- identity
- femininity
- beauty
Books
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They called me Yukari€95.00
Works by Hideka Tonomura
- 2013 They Called Me Yukari New edition published 2023
- 2008 mama 恋 love New edition published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2021
- 2015 Orange Elephant
- 2018 cheki
- 2018 Die of Love
- 2020 SHINING WOMAN #cancerbeauty
- 2022 Toxic
- 2024 Soul Trip
Works about Hideka Tonomura
- Hideka Tonomura spent 20 years inside Tokyo's notorious red-light district Feature on They Called Me Yukari
Exhibitions
- 2004 Unlucky Family
- 2005 Tonomura Hideka Shageki -0305-
- 2007 Viva Hostess's Life
- 2013 They called me Yukari / mama 恋 love
- 2016 orange elephant
- 2018 die of love
- 2020 SHINING WOMAN #cancerbeauty
- 2022 Love
- 2023 They Called Me Yukari
- 2024 soul trip
- 2016 Shikijo: eroticism in Japanese photography
- 2018 Double Method
- 2022 10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers
- 2022 Love Songs
- 2024 TRANSCENDANCE
Awards
- 2003 Nikon Juna21