[5] Ishiuchi was born March 27, 1947, in Nitta District, Gunma, Japan, and raised in Yokosuka, Kanagawa.
She graduated from Yokosuka City Public High school and was admitted to the design department at Tama Art University, where she specialized in textile dying and weaving.
"The scars of adolescence that I sustained there had a big effect on me, and you could say that Yokosuka was the starting point for my photography," the artist tells Ocula Magazine in 2021.
[7] While working with them, Ishiuchi organized the all-women photography exhibition Hyakka Ryoran at the Shimizu Gallery in 1976.
Her work favors the oversize grainy prints and gritty subject matter that characterize the pictures of many photographers in the late 1960s and 1970s who preferred the are-bure, or grainy-blurry.