Yurie Nagashima

Yurie Nagashima
BornOctober 1973 (age 50–51)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Known forPhotography, Contemporary Art
AwardsPARCO Prize in URBANART #2, The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo
Websitehttps://yurienagashima.com/

Yurie Nagashima (長島 有里枝, Nagashima Yurie, born 1973) is a Japanese photographer, contemporary artist and writer working in the genres self-portraiture, portraiture, street photography, installation, research-based and still life. She is best known for raw and intimate portraits of home, family life and the everyday, locating her work in a broader feminist dialogue.

In 2000, Nagashima was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. Nagashima is a lecturer at Tokyo and Musashino Universities, and a visiting professor at Kyoto Art University. Her book僕らの女の子写真からわたしたちのガーリーフォトへ」 [From their “girls’ photography” to our girly photo] (2020) unpacked systemic gender bias in Japanese art criticism through discourse analysis.