Mutsuko Ota

IMA magazine

https://imaonline.jp

About the Reviewer

Born in Tokyo, 1968, she started her career as an editor at Marie Claire and worked at several men’s magazines such as Esquire, GQ and others as a feature editor. Besides collaborating with several magazines as a freelance editor, she also became involved in various fields including art projects, book, museum catalogue editing, artists’ project and film promotion. She became the editorial director of IMA magazine and also started the website imaonline.com in 2012. Two years later, she opened a physical space called IMA CONCEPT STORE / IMA gallery, bookstore and cafe in Tokyo and started publishing photo books as IMA Photobooks. She is also the exhibition director of Asama International photo festival since 2018. https://imaonline.jp/

Language Proficiency

English, Japanese