Anomalies 1 by Anne Murayama

Anomalies, the latest installment in Anne Murayama’s monochrome photobook series, is a tribute to the artist’s ongoing exploration of the extraordinary in the ordinary, taking cues from Daido Moriyama’s Record series. Drawing inspiration from the Tanabata Festival, which marked the inception of her journey with ephemere., Murayama’s lens captures a world teeming with beautiful oddities, outré memories, and enigmatic happenstances. As a sequel to her Anatomies trilogy, Anomalies invites readers into Murayama’s lens, where the mundane is transformed into a realm of intrigue and wonder, and where every photograph tells a story of the surreal lurking just beneath the surface of everyday life.

About Anne Murayama

Anne Murayama completed two pre-medical degrees in Science before following her true love in the Arts. Formerly known as Erin Cross • Erin Nøir of the now-defunct Parallel Planets and Frame Zero, she was also the chief editor of Lomography’s international magazine and the curator-manager of Vetro.

As an image-based artist, Anne has created a diverse body of work with a diaristic approach: evoking an intimate, mysterious disposition that is distinctly hers. To her, black and white images illuminate an evocative kind of solitude, like a phantasm—stripped off of hues, but not devoid of spirit.

As an independent curator and publisher since 2013, Anne has organized more than 10 international group exhibitions and has produced more than 30 photo books and zines. Her works have been exhibited and featured in Australia, Cambodia, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and the US. She is also an alumnus of the Invisible Photographer Asia and the Angkor Photo Workshops.

In 2023, after surviving a life-changing illness, Anne started ephemere. — a small gallery and press that aims to help photographers showcase their work in Japan. She lives in Tokyo with her husband and their cat, Kiki.