After studying philosophy at Chuo University, Japan, Shizuka Yokomizo went on to complete a B.A. at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London and an M.F.A. from Goldsmith’s College, London. Her photographs have been exhibited at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome; The Photographer’s Gallery, UK; Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK; The San Diego Museum of Art; and Wako Works of Art, Tokyo; as well as other venues in Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 2003 her work was included in the Venice Biennale, the First ICP Triennial at the International Center for Photography, New York, and the Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London.
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After completing an internship in photography in 1981 at The International Center of Photography in New York, Jeff Mermelstein began a career that has combined personal photographs with assignment work for major publications including Life Magazine, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Portfolios and photographs have also been published in Aperture, Double Take, and Artforum.
In 1991, Jeff Mermelstein received the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. In 1999 he won the European Publishers Award for Photography, which resulted in the publication of his first book SideWalk (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999). Other books that include his work are Bystander: A History of Street Photography (Bulfinch, 2001) by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz, Time Frames: The Story of Photography (Amphoto Art, 1998) by Ian Jeffrey, and Love and Desire: Photoworks (Chronicle, 1999) by William A. Ewing. His advertising clients include AT&T Wireless, Commes des Garcons, Intel, Samsung, Red Stripe, Clarks Shoes and Hewlett Packard.
Jeff Mermelstein has been on the faculty of the International Center of Photography since 1988.
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