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| Sayaka Ikemoto was born in Tokyo, Japan.After receiving a B.A. in Spanish from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, she went on to receive a M.A. in Latin American Studies.
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| In April 1993, she joined Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) as staff photographer. She became an assistant to the underwater photographer Ikuo Nakamura in January of 1995, and went on to become a freelancer in July of that same year.From September 2000 to March 2002, Ikemoto went to study photography abroad in Paris, after which she began to pursue various projects as a freelance photographer based in Tokyo.
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Capturing the undersea (large creatures, school of fish, underwater seascapes, etc.), and human activities (people in the city, during travel, and on the stage, e.g. classical music and dance), she recently began pursuing other fields (arctic region, aurora, etc.) as well. With her theme “Earth and Its Life On It,” her subject has expanded from the depths of the ocean to as far as infinite space.
She has taught photography in Tokyo (she became an instructor at Nikon School in 2008), whilst writing a serial for a magazine and judging in photography contests.Ikemoto has also held numerous private exhibitions.
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