Tamami Iinuma

Tamami Iinuma
Born in Tokyo, Japan, where she currently lives and works.

Iinuma studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 2008 to 2009, and lived in Leipzig until 2013 (Grant for Overseas Study, Pola Art Foundation, 2010). She was in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2014, and received her Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018.

Working across photography and publishing, Iinuma approaches architecture as an accumulation of human memory, and cities and landscapes as its extended habitat. Her publications include "House of Architecture" (2016, POST), "Piece of Colonne. Fragments of Waves" (2021, Lubok Verlag), "Japan in GDR – Three Japanese Houses in East Germany" (2025, AKAAKA), and "Salut, Mr Taut" (forthcoming in 2026, Lubok Verlag and House of Architecture), and more.

Her solo exhibitions include "About a Small White Architecture" (2023, Nikon Salon Tokyo), "Japan in GDR – Three Japanese Houses in East Germany" (2018, Nikon Salon Tokyo), and "Momentary Architecture" (2018, Pola Museum). Her collective exhibitions include "Von Ferne. Bilder zur DDR" (2019, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich), "Requiem for a Failed State" (2018, Halle 14, Leipzig), and more.

In 2020, she founded the publishing label "House of Architecture," through which she has edited and published titles such as "Searching for a Language of a House – Architectural Photography of Koji Taki" (2020), "Hackability of the Stool" by Daisuke Motogi (2022), and more.

She is currently working on architectural photobooks and collaborative publications with architects internationally.