Kikimo Nishimoto is a Japanese grandmother of the age of 89 who 17 years ago has fallen in love with photography and since then has created and edited her own images.
About ‘Self-portraits’:
While she mostly focuses on still life and nature photography, she has a series of hilarious self-portraits.After discovering her passion, Nishimoto decided to enroll in a photography course for beginners that her son was teaching. She soon fell in love with photography and began her journey to shoot some bizarre and comic self-portraits. Nishmoto held her first exhibition ten years later, in a local museum in her hometown of Kumamoto, and is now to exhibit her work in the Epson Epsite gallery in Tokyo.
This is a series of self-portraits that talk about everyday life in an ironic way. The elderly Japanese lady has created a real torment with this unique project, created something unique. This is a biography told through the images.
