Born in Tokyo, studied photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Back in Japan, Suzuki took up bookbinding and commenced creating works that unfold narratives within the three-dimensional space of the book. Since then, she has exhibited her work through photobooks and installations, combining photography with archival materials, research, and illustration.
Her main theme is the transformation of individual and collective memory under inescapable conditions such as the passage of time, urban development, environmental pollution and physical disability.
Her photobook Sokohi (2020), which traces her father’s life as his visual field contracts due to glaucoma, received the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2021 and has been exhibited around the world, and was selected for MoMA’s “Favourite Photobook of the Year.” Her ongoing projects Aabuku and Kusari (2022–), focusing on PFAS-driven water contamination in Japan and its distortion of memory, have been granted the Fujifilm GFX Challenge Global Grant 2025 and the Arttaca Grant 2024, and are currently in production.
Suzuki is co-director and designer at Three Books, a photobook publishing house she co-founded with photographer Akihito Yoshida.
東京生まれ
ロンドン芸術大学ロンドン・カレッジ・オブ・コミュニケーション卒業
日本帰国後に独自に始めた手製本を通して、本という三次元的空間で物語を紡ぐ作品制作を始める。以降、写真を中心に資料、リサーチ、イラストレーションなどを組み合わせた作品を写真集や展示空間で発表してきた。時間の経過、都市開発、公害、身体障害などの不可避的な条件により、変容する個人や集団の記憶を主な作品のテーマにしている。
緑内障により視野狭窄が進む父親の物語である『底翳』(2020)の写真集はLuma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2021を受賞し世界各地で展示されているほか、MoMAの「Favorite Photobook of the Year」にも選出されている。PFASによる水質汚染、それにより捻れる記憶に焦点をあてた「Aabuku」や「Kusari」(2022-)は2025年Fujifilm GFX Challenge Global Grantや、Arttaca Grant 2024を受賞し、現在制作中。
写真家・吉田亮人と立ち上げた写真集出版社Three Booksの共同代表でデザイナー。
Solo Exhibitions
2025 SOKOHI / Libris KOBACO, Fukuoka
2024 Aabuku / Reminders Photography Stronghold gallery, Tokyo / RPS Kyoto Paperoles, Kyoto / FotoSpace Reago, Naha
2023 だれがテインパニを運ぶのか / green thanks supply, Tokyo
2022 SOKOHI / bookobscura, Tokyo / blackbird books, Osaka / READAN DEAT, Hiroshima
2022 Today's Island - dismantling / Green Thanks Supply, Tokyo
2021 Today’s Island / Green Thanks Supply, Tokyo
2020 SOKOHI / Reminders Photography Stronghold gallery, Tokyo
2017 Transformare / Uradana, Tokyo
2015 Beginning of the Beginnings / Tokyo Metropolitan Senkawa Primary School, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2025 Kusari - GFX Challenge Gloabl Grant exhibition / Fujifilm Square, Tokyo, Osaka
2025 Aabuku - Chennai Photo Biennnale, Angkor Foto Festival & Workshop
2024 Today's Island - Speculative Horizon 1.5 / CAP, Kuwait
2023 Sokohi - Blooming Like Flowers, 2023 China Japan
2023 Sokohi - Photography Exchange Exhibition / Nigbo Art Museum, China
2023 Sokohi - EXPOSURE + Photo Festival / GMBB, Kuala Lumpur
2022 Sokohi - Asama International Photo Festival, Alt Photo, The Virtual Exhibition
2022 Sokohi (Book) - Luma Rencontres de la photographie 2022 (Book Award) Arles, France
2021 Sokohi - The Fineman New Photography Award 2021 / Ballarat Foto Biennale / Australia
2021 Sokohi - Women in Film & Photography 2021 / Objectifs, Singapore
2021 Sokohi - KG+select Finalists’ Show / Kyotographie, Kyoto
2021 Sokohi - Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland
2021 Sokohi (Book) - Kassel Dummy Award exhibition tour / Aarhus, Prague, Istanbul, Singapore, Hong Kong and more.
Awards / Grants / Selections
2026 Aabuku - Biennale della Fotografia Femminile Open Call 2026
2025 Kusari - GFX Challenge Global Grant 2025 recipient
2024 Aabuku - Arttaca Grant 2024 recipient
2024 Aabuku - Dummy Book Award, shortlisted
2023 Aabuku - POY ASIA, Issue Reporting Story, Award of Excellence
2023 SOKOHI - EXPOSURE + Photo 2023, Selcted artist
2022 SOKOHI (Book) “Our Favourite Photobooks of 2022” / MoMA
2021 SOKOHI - KG+ Select, Finalist
2021 SOKOHI (Book) - Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles, Laureate
2021 SOKOHI (Book) - MACK First Book Award, Shortlisted
2020 SOKOHI (Book) - Kassel Dummy Award, Special Mention
Workshop
2019 Photobook as Object by Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel
2017 Atlas Lab by Yumi Goto and Amak Mahmoodian
Books
2024 Aabuku, self-published
2022 Today's Island dismantling, self-published
2017 transformare, self-published
2016 Sketchbook thinking through, self-published
2014 Living with the strangers, self-published
Publication
The New York Times Style Magazine T "J is for Japan / I is for Impermancence" (2025)
nizina online "Interview with the author" (2025)
FT Weekend Magazine "Inner World" (2025)
Tempura N°20 : LA FAMILLE JAPONAISE "Memoire Eternelle" by Emil Pacha Valencia (2024)
Arttaca Features "Between Multitudes" by Zahra Amiruddin (2024)
Tique Six questions (2023)
British Journal of Photography "Moe Suzuki reflects on the erasure of collective memory in one neighbourhood in eastern Tokyo" by Marigold Warner
Collector Daily by Loring Knoblauch (2022)
IMA online (2022)
Ryukyu Simpo, Okinawa Times, The Mainichi, The Braille Mainichi, Capa Camera Web, Industrial Photography, etc