‘Insta-gran’ who rocked social media dies aged 97


Goofy grandma: Nishimoto seen dressed in a dog costume, during a photo shoot outside her house in Kumamoto, Japan, in this 2018 filepic. — AFP

A Japanese great-­grandmother with 400,000 Instagram followers who shot to fame for her goofy self-portraits after taking up photography aged 72 has died, her son said.

Kimiko Nishimoto, who died this week at the age of 97, said in a 2018 interview that “you can take photos no matter how old you get”.

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