Hideko Kataoka
Director of Photography @ Newsweek Japan / Based in Tokyo
Hideko Kataoka has been director of photography at Newsweek Japan, since 2001. She joined the magazine as a photographer in 1991, covering national news, social issues and portraiture of world business and cultural leaders.
As director of photography, she oversees and directs photography both for the printed and digital editions of the magazine as well as its special issues. In 2004, Kataoka launched the Picture Power section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics around the world, “Ten Years of Picture Power”, a book with selected photo stories from the section, was published in 2014.
Hideko is a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University, does portfolio reviews and has served as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, such as World Press Photo, FotoFest and others.
She has been External Review Committee Member of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP Museum, former Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) from 2017.