Beauty and Power by Mika Ninagawa

13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP

Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

With generous support from The Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center and Go Journal, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to host Beauty and Power, an exhibition of photographs of Japanese Paralympians taken by Mika Ninagawa.

Ninagawa was commissioned to take photographs of Japanese para-athletes, capturing their uniqueness, highlighting their power, and revealing their unexpected sides. This exhibition conveys the beauty of their inner strength and their remarkable abilities. Ninagawa brings a new perspective to her images of athletes by integrating them with the visual language of fashion, whether by framing them against her iconic intensified-colour backgrounds or by shooting them in action. By juxtaposing her emblematic studio images with filmic action shots, this exhibition celebrates equality, diversity, and inclusion. She shows that when we accept and embrace uniqueness, our individuality enriches society and makes the world a more fulfilling place.

This exhibition is organized with the support of The Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center and Canon Inc.

OPENING TIMES

Monday to Friday, 10:00-17:00

HOW TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION

If you would like to visit the exhibition, please email us at office@dajf.org.uk at least two working days in advance and provide us with the following information:

Preferred date and time of your visit
Number of guests, their full names and contact phone numbers
Emergency contact number of the person in charge of the booking
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We will try our best to accommodate your preference based on availability and will contact you with a confirmation of your booking. Please make sure you download the NHS COVID-19 Track and Trace app before coming and read the COVID-secure guidance sheet before your visit.

About the contributors

Mika Ninagawa

Mika Ninagawa is a celebrated photographer and director, and the recipient of numerous distinguished awards including the Kimura Ihei Photography Award. Besides various short films, she has directed the feature-length works Sakuran (2007), Helter Skelter (2012), Diner (2019), No Long Human (2019), as well as the Netflix series Followers (2020). Her exhibition Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors was hugely popular and broke attendance records for exhibitions at a number of museums around Japan, and her solo exhibition Mika Ninagawa -into fiction and reality- has been touring Japan since 2018. She is represented by Tomio Koyama Gallery as a contemporary artist.