This oral history was filmed by Jonas Spriestersbach in December 2022 at Tokuko Ushioda's studio in Tokyo, Japan. It is part of the CCA project The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, an open reflection on how past and contemporary image-making practices serve as critical tools to read our built environment and design today’s world. Featuring a series of publications by Jeff Wall and works commissioned by the CCA.

Tokuko Ushioda (b. 1940, Tokyo, Japan – lives and works in Tokyo, Japan) decided to pursue a higher educa-tion in fine arts, at a time when the rate of female participation in the workforce was extremely low in postwar Japan, and while most of her female school peers married at a very young age. She was introduced to photography at the Kuwasawa Design School and later began working as a freelance photographer. Balancing between her roles as a mother, artist, and wife, Ushioda raises questions about gender and domesticity in her work, consid-ering her work as a reflection on intimacy within the extremely private Japanese society.

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The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project (3.05.2023 to 3.03.2023)
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