Originally from Aomori, Japan, Hiroyo Kaneko has been living for the past seven years in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She has been exhibiting her photography since 1999 at such as places as the Photographers’s Gallery and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the San Francisco... 

Hiroyo Kaneko - from "Picnics" seriesI first came across the work of Hiroyo Kaneko earlier this year when I received my copy of Lay Flat, the new photography magazine started by Shane Lavalette. Included with the journal were 20 or so photographs by various artists, each printed individually on card stock. When I came to Kaneko’s image... 

Hiroyo Kaneko wins the 2009 Sante Fe Prize for Photography for her Sentimental Education series. Tweet...