Profile:
Reiko Imoto started photography in Kobe, Japan in 1993. She moved
to London, England in 1995 and the United States in 1999 to study
and research art and photography before she came over to Brussels,
Belgium in 2004. She earned an M.F.A. in photography from the Savannah
College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA. Her solo and group exhibits
have been held in Japan, England, USA, Poland, Slovakia, Russia, China,
Belgium, France, Switzerland and Spain with more future exhibitions
worldwide. Reiko's series of work, entitled "Dreamscapes"
has been exhibited in more than 9 countries between 2005 and 2007.
Her first monograph catalogue, also entitled "Dreamscapes",
has been published for the travelling shows in Poland in 2007. Reiko's
works and interviews have been published in numerous magazines and
newspapers internationally, and she has won several grants and awards
including the Best Portfolio Award at the "International Portfolio
Review" in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2004.
She has a unique eye and her works look mysterious
and surreal, yet the subject matter that she captures are from her
everyday life. Inspired by her own inner reality, subconscious world,
dreams, story tales, music, poetry, and every single ordinary thing
she sees that give her many perspectives. Her photographs reveal questions
about seeing "realities" rather than answers.