Skinship

• Prize
  Silver in Editorial/Photo Essay
• Jury Top 5 Selection

  Timothy B. Anderson

• Photographer
  Takako Kido
• Website
  https://www.takakokido.com

Skinship is a Japanese word that describes the skin-to-skin relationship between family. Through an experience of loving touch, a child learns caring for others. Japanese skinship is considered to be important for strengthening the bond of family and also for the child’s healthy development. Because the idea of skinship was perfectly natural to me as Japanese, only after I was arrested in New York because of family snapshots of skinship, did I realize how unique and shocking it could be in other cultural contexts. Living in both Japan and America showed me a cultural comparison and paradox.

• Biography
  Born in Kochi, Japan in 1970. After graduating from the International Center of Photography’s full-time General Studies program in 2003, she remained in New York working as a B&W printer and retoucher while also exhibiting and publishing a series of photo-essay projects for the Kochi Shimbun newspaper. She returned to Japan in 2008 and currently lives in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. She presents her work in solo and group exhibitions and at slide shows both in Japan and overseas.
• Awards
  2021 Photolucida Critical Mass 2021 Top 50 Photographers 2020 Photolucida Critical Mass 2020 Top 200 Photographers Finalist 2014 Honorable Mention, ND Awards 2014 Fine Art Landscape 2010 2nd place – Merit of Excellence, Fine Art Category, 5th Annual Black & White Spider Awards 2009 Honorable Mention, PX3 2009 Competition 2007 3rd place, 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography 1998 Honorable Mention, 17th CANON New Cosmos of Photography