Photography

Miya Turnbull

Miya Turnbull is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist. Primarily a mask maker, she also works in many mediums such as painting, photography, screen printing, textiles, video, animation and projection. She is of settler, mixed Japanese-Canadian ancestry(Yonsei) and grew up on a farm 45km NW of Edmonton, Alberta (Treaty 6 territory). Her mother, Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull, […]

Shozo Ushiroguchi

Shozo Ushiroguchi is a photographer who began making black and white photographic prints over 50 years ago when he moved from Japan to Germany; that’s where he apprenticed in a photo studio in West Berlin and attended a technical institute for film and photography. Over the years, his black and white prints have continued to […]

Brian Sano

Brian Sano is a Toronto-based commercial photographer who photographs merchandise, food, and cosmetics. His clients have included Holt Renfrew, Aritzia, Birks, Harry Rosen, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, and Winners.

Kenji Nagai

Kenji Nagai is a freelance photographer based in Vancouver. Born in Japan, he worked for photography studios in Osaka and Kobe before immigrating to Canada in the 1970s. He has had his own company, Kenji Photo Design, since 1983.

Shun Sasabuchi

Shun Sasabuchi is a photographer. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1951 and moved to Toronto, Canada in 1969 at the age of 18. He graduated from the Graphic Design Department at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Canada. Sasabuchi entered the world of photography on graduation when he started to work […]

Vincent Noguchi

Vincent Noguchi is a photographer. Born and raised in Toronto by two creative parents, Vince Noguchi found a passion in photography that quickly consumed his life. Starting early with his mother’s plastic point-and-shoot, Vince soon acquired his dad’s beautiful old Kodak and then his own Fuji 701. A darkroom followed, and a lifelong love grew […]

Yosh Inouye

Yosh Inouye is a photographer and graphic designer. He studied sociology, photography, and graphic design in Japan and came to Canada in 1968. He worked as an advertising photographer, operating his own studio. In the mid-1980s, he was invited to teach at Sheridan College of which he says, ‘I didn’t know I can teach until […]

Tamio Wakayama

Tamio Wakayama is a photographer.

Akira Yoshikawa

Akira Yoshikawa has always been interested in art, architecture, design and music. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1974 with Special Commendation from the Department of Experimental Art, he has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Mercer Union, Art Gallery of Algoma and […]

Baco Ohama

Baco Ohama describes herself as a sensorialist, a writer, a text walker, a maker, and as an artist who works with the felt and the found. She says she is drawn to slow conversations and everyday poetics, and often finds herself thinking about the relationships between history, language, and location. A sansei who grew up […]

Gloria Kagawa

Gloria Kagawa is an established printmaker, painter, and mixed media artist whose works have earned her several awards and are included in a number of public, private, and corporate collections. Gloria has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Gloria grew up in Denver, Colorado, during the 1950s […]

Katherine (Kathi) Adachi

Katherine’s main creative outlet is photography, especially street, architectural and landscape. Despite studying research psychology (University of Toronto, BSc), her working life was spent in graphic design and editing. Katherine was the Publication Designer of secondary and elementary school courses for the Independent Learning Centre, Ontario Ministry of Education from 1979 until 2000, art directing […]

Steven Nunoda

Steven Nunoda is a Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but also uses a variety of other media, such as woodcarving, found-objects, photography, digital imaging, text and time-based strategies. His practice is research-oriented and usually produced a number of long-term, thematically interrelated works. One example is Ghostown, a project which explores […]

Emiko Morita

Emiko Morita is a third-generation mixed-heritage Japanese Canadian arts administrator and from 2015 – 2024, the Executive Director of the Powell Street Festival in Vancouver, the largest Japanese Canadian arts and cultural festival in Canada. Previously, she worked in the publishing industry as the marketing director at Douglas & McIntyre, leading marketing campaigns for national […]

Roy K. Kiyooka

One of the first Japanese Canadian artists to achieve prominence on a national and international scale, Roy Kiyooka began his art practice as a painter, later turned his focus to poetry and photography, and engaged in a variety of trans-disciplinary, experimental, and community-building work in the Canadian arts scene. A Nisei, Kiyooka was born in […]