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Born in Japan, now based in New York. Oba has had numerous exhibitions internationally and travels often. Her photographs are in private and corporate collections as well as in public collection such as in Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris as their permanent collection. Magazines and newspapers have interviewed and published some series and articles about her fine art photography and personal life.
Her early career was in broadcast journalism, including as news presenter on Japanese television both in New York and in the Japan. It was her work with film direction that first gave her an appreciation of the power of visual imagery. This experience became the basis of her photographic and artistic career. When she went to graduate school in the U.S. to broaden her field internationally, she “encountered photography" as a tool of expressing her perspective on a deeper and more personal level. Since then, she has gradually switched her career from broadcasting to photography and visual arts.
Oba's photography explores human drama as it unfolds in a variety of places, linked with a deep exploration of her own thoughts and emotions. While her work is global in subject matter, her style tends to impose serenity and harmony on visually confusing subjects. This attitude of relating her work to the feelings in her own soul is individual. |
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Merit Award for the two black and white series; "El Camino - Beyond the Tunnel" Series and "Journey of Life & Light" Series in B&W for Collectors of Fine Photography Magazine. (U.S.A.) |
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Selected for Salon d’Automne 2005, Paris. (France) |
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First Prize (Grand Prix) on the International Professional Photo Fair Contest. (Japan) |
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- " New York Walker" - "NY ARTS Magazine" - "New York" Magazine - "Wisdom" New York - "PhaT PHOTO" |
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- Newspapers: "Asahi Newspaper", "Yomiuri Newspaper" and other newspapers. Articles including reviews and interviews about her exhibitions and a story about her life and photography. |
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"Nippon Camera": Introduced her art photo works in their several issues. - "COSMOPOLITANâ€Japan: Biographical article of the interview with Oba featuring her photographs in the magazine. |
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“FAUSTUS - Remembrance of a Thing Lost †|
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Photographs, paintings, works on paper - U.S. |
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This introspective project contains three stages - 1) "PACTUM" series, the photographs of my own blood paintings and coagulations and its original drawings, 2) “They Might Amputate My Pinkieâ€- Self portraits oriented photos during three operations and before the eventual amputation surgery, and 3) “New Handâ€- post surgery narrative photographs.
It deals with my physical and emotional voyage in response to the spontaneous bleeding and eventually needed to amputate my pinkie due to the extremely rare medical condition.
The gallerist Gary Edwards describes: " Her early work, showing her idiosyncratic interpretations of such places as Spain, Belgium, France, Tokyo and New York, was gaining critical interest when her progress was interrupted by this new personal tragedy. This new work is personal and at the same time, a universal drama exploring the most basic of human tales - facing fear and loss with courage. The work might be compared to Francesca Woodman's and Cindy Sherman's quest for a new identity.
In Oba's case, one sees the perseverance of a loving spirit, and a validation of the eternal beauty of the female form." |
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