Professor, History of Modern and Contemporary Art / History of Photography, Meiji University

Kuraishi Shino (b. 1963) served as curator at the Yokohama Museum of Art from 1989 to 2007, working on exhibitions by artists including Man Ray, Robert Frank, Nakahira Takuma, and Lee Ufan. He is the author of Han-Shashinron (“Against Photographic Theory”) and Snapshot: Shashin no Kagayaki (“The Brilliance of Photography”), and co-author of Paradise Lost: The Politics of Landscape 1870–1945 and Testaments: 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. He also co-edited the Okinawa Photographers: Ryukyu Retsuzo series with Nakazato Isao. Kuraishi received the Shigemori Koen Prize for Photography Criticism in 1998 and the Photographic Society of Japan Curatorial Award in 2011.