Photographers

Lieko Shiga (b. 1980, Japan) is a Japanese photographer known for her highly expressive, surreal, and emotionally charged imagery. Her work often blurs the boundaries between documentary, fiction, and performance, creating immersive visual narratives rooted in memory, trauma, and collective experience.

Shiga gained international recognition for her long-term project Rasen Kaigan (Spiral Coast), created in collaboration with a coastal community in northern Japan. The work combines staged scenes, personal stories, and local mythology, resulting in a complex and layered body of images that reflects both individual and communal histories.

Her photobooks, particularly Rasen Kaigan, are regarded as significant contributions to contemporary Japanese photography, noted for their ambitious scale, sequencing, and narrative depth. For collectors, Shiga’s work stands out for its intensity, originality, and its expansion of the photobook as a site of storytelling and collective memory.