Exhibition Tour: Japanese Women Photographers 1950s to Now

06:30pm - 07:15pm, Thu 25 Jun 2026

Join this informal tour of Japanese Women Photographers

Colour photograph of Mount Fuji in the distance, with a body of water in the foreground.

Exhibition Tour: Japanese Women Photographers 1950s to Now

6:30pm, Thu 25 Jun 2026

Join this informal tour of Japanese Women Photographers

Free, with general admission

Photo historian Carrie Cushman leads this tour, highlighting a range of works and referring to key moments in Japan's photography and its broader histories. 

Carrie Cushman is a specialist in postwar and contemporary art and photography from Japan. She contributed the essay The Japanese Women Who Transformed Photography to the exhibition catalogue I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. She also worked with Kelly Midori Mccormick to produce the timelines in the exhibition. Cushman has recently become Director of the Bates College Museum of Art. She has built a career centred on curatorial innovation, scholarly research, and museum leadership.