Mainly active taking personal portraits, travel photos for magazines and business PR publications, and other commercial photos. As a lifelong occupation, continues to illustrate the incessant changes in the character of the Tokyo Metropolitan area through photography. Appeared as a guide for twilight and outdoor walks on NHK programs “Konnichiwa Itto Rokken” and “Bi no Tsubo”. From 2013 to 2019, posted a series of photos on the slopes of Tokyo in the monthly magazine “Chuo Koron” under the title of “Walking the Slopes of Tokyo”. Since 2013, has served as an instructor at the Photo Morishita school of photography. Since 2017, has posted a personal record of Tokyo on Facebook almost on a weekly basis via movies and photos he calls “Tokyo Observations”.
- 1960
- Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
- 1986
- Started his career as an independent professional cameraman after working as an assistant to
the photographer Noboru Takahashi.
- 1995
- Photo exhibition “Rooftops of Buildings in Tokyo” at Minolta-Photo Space Shinjuku.
- 2000
- Photo exhibition “An Album of River Banks Scenes: 1998～1999” at Minolta-Photo Space Shinjuku.
- 2008
- Photo exhibition “Twilight Tokyo” at the 8th floor Gallery of the Yaesu Book Center Main Shop.
- 2012
- Photo exhibition “Walking on the Rooftops of Buildings in Tokyo” at the 1st floor gallery of 3331 Arts Chiyoda.
- 2016
- Photo exhibition “TOKYO PHOTOS FROM FIXED-POINT OBSERVATION -TOKYO AT TWILIGHT
AND 100 YEARS OF WALKING THROUGH TOKYO- ” at Sony Imaging Gallery.
- 2019
- Special exhibition “Fukagawa Modern: The Modern Era Depicted in Culture” at the Fukagawa
Edo Museum.
- 2019
- Photo exhibition “Tracking Beethoven” for the “All Beethoven Program by the WDR Symphony
Orchestra Cologne” at the Miyazaki Theater of Performing Arts.
Publications
- 2007
- “Twilight Tokyo”, Tankosha
- 2009
- “Shooting 36 Views of Tokyo: How to Take Pictures Professionally”, Kodansha
- 2012
- “Walking on the Rooftops of Buildings in Tokyo”, Tankosha
- 2015
- “100 Years of Walking through Tokyo”, Kairyusha
- 2016
- “A Photographic School”, Kairyusha
- 2019
- “A Walk through Tokyo in Edo Times Told through Block Prints and Photographs”, Kadokawa
(Available in electronic format, too)
Collaborations with other authors
“Tokyo Memoirs”, Kodansha
“A Travelogue of Thailand and Laos” and “Countryside Villages in Germany”, Nikkei BP Project Inc.
“Berlin, Germany”, Kawadeshobo-shinsha
“Castle Hotels in Germany”, Kadokawa-shoten
With the Cooperation of The Beethoven House of Bonn, The Beethoven Jubilee Society, Historic Highlights of Germany Association, The Bonn Tourist Office, German National Tourist Board and The Vienna Tourist Board.
Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to All those who helped me and made this photo exhibition possible. These include the members of Beethoven House of Bonn, The Beethoven Jubilee Society, The Bonn Tourist Office, Historic Highlights of Germany Association and The Vienna Tourist Board.
I would also like to personally offer my deepest gratitude to the following people. Ms.Yvonne Megens of The Historic Highlights of Germany Association, who planed and organized this project, Mr. Katsuji Tani, the renowned author who accompanied me on the press trip, interviewed authorities, interpreted conversations and translated materials concerning The Great Composer. Mr. Kozo Morita, the photographer who helped me greatly with his precious advice making the video for my photo exhibition of 100 monetarized photos projected on the screen with bilingual explanations.
About Video
Please feel free to watch the video for about 14 minutes as it will be played repeatedly.
Video created by Kozo Morita (Photographer), translated by Katsuji Tani (Author)