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Artist Kanno Jun was born in Fukushima, studied film production in the US, and after returning to Japan worked primarily in the portrait and landscape genres. In 2018 she relocated from Tokyo to Fukushima, and has been producing works dealing with the natural scenery and environment of Fukushima since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Some of her works have the theme of relationships between animals and people, and she presents these works under the name "Kanno Panda".
Awards include the 13th New Cosmos of Photography Prize (selected by Araki Nobuyoshi)(1996) and the 42nd Ina Nobuo Award (2017). Major photography exhibitions include Planet Fukushima (Nikon Salon, 2017), Fukushima's New Generation 2001: Seven Rooms (group exhibition, the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 2001), and Private Room II - Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan (group exhibition, Art Tower Mito, 1999). Her many publications include The Circle (self-published, 2017) and Traveling Through South America (Little More, 2004).