16/08/2025
We’re excited to announce a new digital interview on our website - was very privileged to engage with in an interview. Deep gratitude to you Kumi for your time, deep consideration, and for your brilliance X Aliki
An interview with Kumi Oguro
Kumi Oguro’s photographic world is a quiet otherworld where contradictions converge - where fragility meets destruction, playfulness lingers with sensuality, and presence slips ever so easily into absence. Born in Japan and based in Antwerp since the late 1990s, Oguro has carved her own contemplative path through analogue, square-format film. With a deliberate, intimate process, carefully staged yet open to the unforeseen, she invites us into suspended dreams that are charged with tension, ambiguity and an unmistakable otherworldliness. Through this refusal of simple interpretation, Oguro has created a body of work that is as visually arresting as it is enduring.
In this conversation, Oguro reflects on the origins of her artistic journey, the emotional landscapes that ignite her imagination, and the subtle evolutions that have guided her long-running projects. We also discuss her collaborations on two photobooks and the still-poignant fictional essence of “Hester.” Each answer offers a window into what makes Oguro’s vision both timeless and deeply human.
Link to the interview in our bio 👌
Plus, our first artist mini mixtape is in the interview.