Mariko Takeuchi is a writer and critic of photography. She received an M.A. in Arts from Waseda University. In 2008 she received a Fulbright Grant. Takeuchi was also a guest researcher at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2004-2009) and at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011-2014). She has organized numerous exhibitions, including the Spotlight on Japan of Paris Photo (2008) as guest curator, Japan section at Dubai Photo Exhibition (2016), and the touring exhibition titled I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now which premiered at Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles (2024) as co-curator. Published works include her bilingual collection of essays titled Silence and Image: Essays on Japanese Photographers and her translation (bilingual) of Disclosure: Rwandan Children Born of Rape by Jonathan Torgovnik among many others. She is a professor at Kyoto University of the Arts.