Born 1960 in Ishikawa Prefecture. Having studied aeronautics in the Air Self-Defense Force and worked in the corporate world, he was more than 40 years old when he enrolled in the Department of Photography of the Nihon University College of Art. He completed a graduate program and is now an associate professor in the department, mainly teaching the basics of photography. His research focus is early photographic techniques, and he is exploring ways to utilize them in contemporary photographic work. His work emphasizes photographic recording, in gelatin silver black-and-white prints in formats ranging from 8x10 inches to 35mm. He attempts to complete better-quality prints in every format, including film that has been exposed to X-rays during airport security scans.

Member of The Photographic Society of Japan, The Society of Photography and Imaging of Japan, and The Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography

Selected Exhibitions

2018 :

“Living with the earth” (Collaboration), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata

2017 :

“From our workplaces”, 30th Meeting of the Japan Gerontological Urology Association

2016 :

“Journey through the history of 35x35mm photography”, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

2015 :

“Entrance / Geometry” Group Show, WACCA Ikebukuro, Tokyo

2014 :

“Intersection Project - Parallel Intersections”

2013 :

“Iron / Carving / Photography”, Collaboration with KURAKAKE Jun’ichi, Hoshi to Mori no Uta Museum, Niigata
“A flower is not a flower”, Collaboration with KURAKAKE Jun’ichi, N+N Exhibition, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo

2012 :

“Yama no ueshita”, Collaboration, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata

2011 :

Typology Series No.1 - “Entrance”, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

Born in Saitama Prefecture. She is a professor of photography at Nihon University, having graduated from the university’s Department of Photography and Graduate School of Art. She supports many students who are completing photography projects for seminars and other classes. She understands living to be a journey, and she journeys continuously, living in the city so she can return to nature and returning to nature so she can live in the city. In exhibitions she tends to show snapshots of urban scenes, and mainly imagistic photos of natural scenes. In Japan she likes to shoot natural scenes with an emphasis on the fundamental elements (earth, fire, water, wind, emptiness), and sacred sites that can be interpreted as empty spaces. Meanwhile her lifework is the study of high school photographic activities, and she is an active supporter of high school photography throughout Japan.

Member of Japan Professional Photographers Society; Director, Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography; Member of Photographic Society of Japan

Selected Exhibitions

2018 :

Light’s Edge, Shinjuku Photo Promenade, Nikon Plaza, Tokyo

2016 :

Living in the City, Portrait Gallery, Tokyo

2012 :

Scenes in Metamorphosis, Portrait Gallery, Tokyo

2003 :

Nagi, Artist Garden Photo Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Publications

2018 :

City of Kurara, in “My Works” (JPS Members 2016 Exhibition), Sirius - AIDEM

2015 :

Hell in a Bottle, Ajisai Exhibition, Olympus Gallery

2014 :

Kaze wo, DF Exhibition, Shinjuku Photo Promenade, Nikon Plaza

2011 :

ku: (Works by Sasai Yuko and Akimoto Kimiko)

2010 :

Kurenai (Works by Sasai Yuko and Akimoto Kimiko)

2009 :

Suikei (Works by Sasai Yuko and Akimoto Kimiko)

2009 :

“Impression Fossils”, “an unexpected sight - bottles”，“To the Bone” in the Bulletin of the Japan Society for Arts and History of Phtography

And more

Born 1984 in Kagawa Prefecture. He is a graduate, former research associate, and current assistant professor of the Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University. He teaches photography basics, and classes themed on fresh perspectives in image processing, science photography and other areas, as well as classes connected with student projects. His lifework is shooting casual everyday scenes using shift lenses and blurring. Recently he has been using new digital photographic equipment and techniques to create works that blend expressive techniques from various fields of art.

Member of The Photographic Society of Japan and The Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography.

Selected Exhibitions

2018 :

The Time is Spring, Gallery Kingyo, Tokyo

2016 :

Solo Exhibition, Imai Kinpaku Gallery, Kanazawa

2015 :

Tokyo Snow, Gallery Kingyo, Tokyo

2014 :

• My Scape, Gallery K, Tokyo
• About Memory, Gallery Kingyo, Tokyo
• In the Unhurried Flow, Gallery K, Tokyo
• Water Garden, Gallery K, Tokyo

2013 :

• Botanical Portrait, Gallery K, Tokyo
• Botanical Portrait, Art Imagine Gallery, Tokyo
• Invisible, 315 Art Center, Seoul

2012 :

• Beginning of the Journey, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo
• Solo Exhibition, Fine Art 21, Takamatsu

2011 :

Accessibility, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo

2010 :

Sakura, Shinjuku Promenade Gallery, Tokyo

And more