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89-Year-Old Japanese Grandma Discovers Photography, Can’t Stop Taking Hilarious Self-Portraits Now
Most people think that technology is for young people, but nobody told Kimiko Nishimoto that. She's an 89-year-old Japanese grandma who's been snapping and editing her own pictures for the last 17 years, and as you can see below, her style is certainly unique!
She didn't get into photography until she was 72 years old. Her son was teaching a beginner's course and so she decided to enroll, unaware that she was about to awake a passion and a talent she never even knew she had. She instantly fell in love with photography and set about snapping various quirky and comical self-portraits. She had her first solo exhibition ten years later, at a local museum in her home town of Kumamoto, and now she's about to have her work exhibited at Tokyo's Epson epsite imaging gallery. Titled “Asobokane" - meaning "let's play" - the exhibition will feature previously unseen work from the octogenarian artist, so if you happen to be in Tokyo between December 15, 2017 and January 18, 2018 then be sure to check it out. Think you're too old to try something new? Think again.
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Tamara Keegan 8 years ago
I am giggling so much my face is starting to hurt. Ha!!!! She's so freaking adorably cheeky.
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Ana Breeze 8 years ago
That moment when you realize an 89 yr old grandma has more fun than you. :p Cool pic though.
ADD golfer 8 years ago
What a creative mind. Here I am, simply hoping my mind can still tell me how to use a fork, when I'm 89
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Alice Landers 8 years ago
I'm a grandma like that and my son first baby my 1st grandchild ..I made joke "grandchildren are Gods gift for not killing your children"..he did NOT think it was funny!!!..I think he was switched at birth! LOL
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Alice Landers 8 years ago
"help I've fallen and can't get up!"...Kane you watch to much TV :)
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Karen Karen 6 years ago
I think the bus was parked, and she edited the picture with motion/blur filters to get this effect
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Chocolate Quente e Biscoitos 8 years ago
Such a fun person! What a joy to be around she must be :D
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Maureen Zappellini 8 years ago
Wait, they have uniforms for burglars in Japan? LOL wouldn't that make them easy to find? ( jk I know what you mean)
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Tamara Keegan 8 years ago
I am nearing peeing my pants now Mrs. Kimiko Nishimoto. Especially knowing reading Yugan's response. STOP!
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Deneille Smith 8 years ago
I laughed just when I saw the title and the first pic! Hillarious
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Cat person 8 years ago
Omg I have those same pens! They are called Frixion and are made by a Japanese company
DancingToMyself 8 years ago
Me too, me too!!! I was immediately started to laugh because of it! :D
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Corina Alvarez Loeblich 6 years ago
The only portrait I drew about myself was like this XD Wasn't too serious for a book publishing, so I had to do another one... Too bad publishers didn't had her sense of humor. I got you, granny, you're hilarious!
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MollyJayne Landon 7 years ago
If this was an American versus Japanese Grandma, this one actually could be taken as a commentary on the societal treatment of the elderly. With a Japanese elderly person, it is like sarcasm.
endelbendel 8 years ago
Is it violence if it looks like violence? That might make this one art.
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Molly A. Block 8 years ago
They say when you get old--this old, or older even--you start to regress back to infancy. Here is proof! Awesomeness!!!
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Wendy J Shores 8 years ago
Some of these pictures are a little disturbing. She obviously isnt hurt but when I see a vehicle behind her I worry that one of these days, someone is going to get distracted looking at her and someone is gonna die. Love LOVE her pictures but not the ones where someone could get hurt.
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Divadi Bear 8 years ago
She is hilarious !!!!! People call me eccentric but she beats me hands down !!!
Macky Vergara 8 years ago
WOW Granny, you're awesome. Arigatou Gozaimasu for these picture. I miss my grandmother because of you, and i'll gonna visite her soon. have a long and wonderful life. (n_n)
Jennifer Ramirez 8 years ago
She is adorably hilarious. Gotta keep a sense of humor your while life
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Bobbi Newell 8 years ago
To all the critics: she's an amateur photographer, so yeah, her work is a little uneven. SO WHAT??? She's having fun, she's making people laugh, and she has a museum exhibit. This is a lady with a great sense of humor. I'd love to hang out with her!
adoracat 8 years ago
Yep, this is the kind of grandmother I'm trying to be with the wee dictator, although I'm "only" 54. She says my hair color is "WAY cool, Mimi!"
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Samantha Bing 8 years ago
They're creative - she's put a lot of effort and imagination into it - definitely kudos do that
Hari Onago 8 years ago
Japanese elders never cease to amaze me. They have so much energy and keep on trying on new things. I don't know if it's the "ikigai" philosophy or what, but bravo lovely lady :D
anarkzie 8 years ago
But a million times better than the usual random person copying celeb photos that we normally get on this site.
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Bobbi Newell 8 years ago
To all the critics: she's an amateur photographer, so yeah, her work is a little uneven. SO WHAT??? She's having fun, she's making people laugh, and she has a museum exhibit. This is a lady with a great sense of humor. I'd love to hang out with her!
adoracat 8 years ago
Yep, this is the kind of grandmother I'm trying to be with the wee dictator, although I'm "only" 54. She says my hair color is "WAY cool, Mimi!"
Load More Replies... Samantha Bing 8 years ago
They're creative - she's put a lot of effort and imagination into it - definitely kudos do that
Hari Onago 8 years ago
Japanese elders never cease to amaze me. They have so much energy and keep on trying on new things. I don't know if it's the "ikigai" philosophy or what, but bravo lovely lady :D
anarkzie 8 years ago
But a million times better than the usual random person copying celeb photos that we normally get on this site.
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