Baba Saori

Baba Saori is a photographer and Doctor of Fine Arts born in Fukuoka, Japan. After completing her graduate studies at Kyushu Sangyo University, she served as an Assistant Professor at Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan and is currently a specially appointed associate professor at the University of Kitakyushu. Drawing on her personal experience with breast cancer, she creates works that explore themes such as the body, gender, and social minorities. Her major projects—2.7%, The View Through My Blood, and His name is Chih-Wei Peng—have garnered attention in exhibitions held both in Japan and abroad. As a researcher, she publishes scholarly work on women photographers and photographic culture in Taiwan, bridging photography and society through both artistic and academic practice.