Maiko Yoshimoto

Maiko Yoshimoto is a cheerful Japanese woman who grew up in Kochi prefecture, Japan. She studied cultural anthropology at Hiroshima University. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted fieldwork for a year in the village of the Mangyan, one of the indigenous people in the Philippines. After graduating from her university, she worked at an oil Transportation Company for a few years and has just started her new career as a freelance photographer to pursue her ambition to be an ethnographic photographer in the future.

Maiko's sponsor is District 2670 in Shikoku, Japan. She will be hosted by the Rotary club of Woden for a year as she pursues a Master’s degree in liberal Arts (Visual Culture Research) from ANU.  Maiko, whom has a deep interest in indigenous people, and the Rotary club of Woden which is involved with Australian Aborigine, has created a great chemistry between them. She is excited to join various activities related with indigenous people and culture

Maiko is willing to hold her photo exhibition featuring indigenous people while she is in Australia. In addition, she has a great curiosity in working as a photographer during holidays to expand her ability and possibility in the future. Expressing ‘’ Indigenous Beauty’’ through photograph is her theme. She shows her passion to promote international understanding by cooperating with the Rotary club and will aim to take advantages of all the chances she will experience in Australia.