Statement

To photograph is to frame what is already unfolding before me — capturing phenomena as they are, through my own perspective, along with their time and weight. There is always a clear angle of consciousness involved, and each slight shift in that angle becomes a distinct work. As I continue to take photographs, these fragments of awareness accumulate like layers of sediment. Over time, they begin to form a shape. And when those layers grow vast and deep, my own figure begins to emerge from within them.

A single point becomes a line, the line becomes a surface, and the surface eventually rises up to reveal a presence. I follow this process intuitively, as though tracing a single thread of light, embedding every step into each photograph—one image at a time, in a continuous act of introspection.

What I aim to express in each photo is not only the image itself, but the immense, layered consciousness that lies beneath it.

The work is never fully visible from the beginning. In fact, I always hope it will surpass my limited imagination. This is why I value continuity: to keep making, and never stop. Sometimes, in the midst of this ongoing process, a work begins to take on its own energy—surpassing me, reaching others. Watching it find its way into the hands of someone else feels, perhaps, a bit like raising a child and sending them out into the world.

I believe that every photograph I take reflects myself at a particular moment in life. Everything that appears in the image is, in essence, a part of me.

To photograph is to lay myself bare. Living and creating are inseparably linked. Through the act of creation, the once-separated layers of my awareness and my physical body come together—I feel the certainty of my existence. To question what kind of work I want to create is same as asking what kind of person I want to become.

I believe that what I create will inevitably resonate with a point within someone else—somewhere deep inside. That point of connection gives me strength. It becomes the next thread of light I follow.

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COMPOSITION =混成 (Konsei / Blending)
To me, composition signifies the blending of time and gaze—of the one who sees, and the one who is seen. In that moment of convergence, “you” and “I” become one. Through photography, I search for a way of being, a way of existing in this world.

The “rawness” I continuously capture in my daily life accumulates slowly, layer by layer, like sediment. And when those layers become vast enough, the mass that emerges is—inevitably, undeniably—feminine, and animalistic.

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Currently based in Tokyo, Ruriko Taguchi was born on December 8, 1978 and grew up in Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture.
She took up photography in 2003 through self-study. After winning the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Prize in the same year, she began working as a photographer.
While working as a photographer in the music and magazine industries, she has consistently produced themed works with women as her subject, regularly showing these with photography exhibitions and publications.
Her key works include: “Keigai Doboku (bare forms)” (2010–), which is a portrait collection of women’s backs; “SCAPE” (2016–), depicting nudes as scenery; “KIYOKO” (2017–),a series of portraits documenting her grandmother; and “CUT OFF” (2020), nude portraits of herself for the first time.
She is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society and the Japan Stage Photographers Society.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – OPEN YOUR EYES, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2023 – OUT OF NOISE, COCO-PHOTO SALON (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – SHOW CASE / OUT OF NOISE, Dohjidai Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2022 – CUT OFF, GALLERY GARAGE (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2020 – CUT OFF, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #5, The Conran Shop Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – SCAPE #4, Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Nagoya (Aichi, Japan)
2017 – rhythm, Nikon Plaza Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – MONO SCAPE, EIZO Galleria Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibitions
2025 – Art Port Takamatsu (Takamatsu, Japan)
2025 – DAWN, AMS Photo Studio (KG＋, Kyoto, Japan)
2024 – 9 colors, 9 stories, Paper Pool (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 – Being, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 – icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTO EXHIBITION II, AXIS GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – Spring of COVID, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2020 – SELF-PORTRAIT, Jam Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 – Womania, FUGENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2017 – Fad Fair, The Artcomplex Center (Tokyo, Japan)
2017 – 8 Portrait Photographers Exhibition, Olympus Plaza Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)