BIO

Noriko Hayashi is a documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer based in Tokyo. She is represented by Panos Pictures.

Noriko began taking pictures for a local newspaper "The Point" in Gambia, West Africa, when she was a university student in International Relations. Since then, she has been shooting stories all around the world including North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Peru, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, etc

Her work has been recognized with awards including the Visa d’Or feature award at the Visa Pour l'image festival in France in 2013, 1st Prize of NPPA Best of Photojournalism in Contemporary Issue Stories in 2014. Her documentary work was finalist for the Alexia Foundation professional grant in 2013 and for Amnesty International Media Awards 2014 and 2021. In 2015, she was selected to take part in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. Noriko is a National Geographic Explore since 2023.

Her works have been published internationally in outlets such as GRANTA, The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, Stern, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Bloomberg Businessweek, Marie Claire UK and Newsweek among others.

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Unholy Matrimony 138 pages Nikkei National Geographic

The Prayer of the Yazidis (Japanese, English and German) 223 pages AKAAKA