Hiromi Toshikawa (利川 裕美, Toshikawa Hiromi, born 1976),[1] better known as Hiromix (ヒロミックス, Hiromikkusu), is a Japanese photographer and artist.[2]
Biography
Hiromix won the 11th New Cosmos of Photography (写真新世紀, Shashin Shin-seiki) award in March 1995.[3] She was nominated by
Nobuyoshi Araki for a series of photographs called Seventeen Girl Days.[4] Her photographs depicted life from a
teenager's perspective.[5] She was also a judge for the Cosmos of Photography contest from 2011 to 2015.
In 1996, Hiromix published her first book Girls Blue.[6] She became known in the West with her book Hiromix, edited by the French photography critic Patrick Remy and published by Steidl in 1998.[7] In 2000, she was awarded the
Kimura Ihei Award for her book Hiromix Works. She has published several other photography books that are concerned with identity, community, gender and the everyday.
As a former member of the Japanese band The Clovers, Hiromix also released a music album and continues[when?] to work as a DJ. She briefly appeared in a TV commercial for an
Yves Saint Laurent fragrance called
Jazz.[8] The German photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans photographed her in 1997.[9] She also has a cameo appearance in the 2003 film Lost in Translation, directed by
Sofia Coppola.[10] She photographed for fashion brand
Kenzo's pre-fall collection in 2016.[11]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Start of Spring, Radiance of the Heart, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo (2009)[citation needed]
St. Valentin Special | Room of Love, Eye of Gyre, Tokyo (2010)[citation needed]
The Wonder of Love and Time, Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo (2015)[citation needed]
^Bornoff, Nicholas (1999). "Figures in the Landscape." In: Brittain, David (ed.), Creative camera: thirty years of writing, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 272.