Scars Miyako Ishiuchi

This collection of works by Japanese female photographer Miyako Ishiuchi is one of her representative works, created over a period of 13 years on the theme of "wounds" on the human body, which she began photographing in the 1990s. In a departure from his early landscapes and street snapshots, this work focuses on the wounds carved on the body due to wars and accidents.

"The wounds themselves tell a story. Each person's story is a very sad and painful one, but because those memories remain as scars now, they can be told in words. The fact that the scars remain on the body after time has passed gives them a narrative." -Miyako Ishiuchi