Profile

Born in 1972. Graduated from Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Sophia University and Department of Photography Art II, Tokyo College of Photography. Since his round-the-world trip in 1993-94, has traveled to 56 countries to date. After working for Marubeni Corporation in the natural gas pipeline transportation business, entered Tokyo College of Photography. There, studied under Kiyoshi Suzuki and Norio Kobayashi. Using natural Japanese landscapes as motifs, explores the harmony of colors and shapes and the visual effects of differences in light and dark, developing a multifaceted expression that moves between the perspectives of a window and a mirror. His photography collections and solo exhibitions include Land Escapes, Land Escapes Face and Terra. Received the Newcomer's Award of the Photographic Society of Japan for his 2020 photo exhibition and photo collection Terra (Photo Collection Akaaka 2019 and Photo Exhibition Canon Gallery S 2019). Is an associate professor at Nihon University College of Art.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Terra 2024 - Body and Space -Canon Gallery Ginza, Osaka

2023

Terra 2023, Contemporary Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2021

Terra, Higashikawa Cultural Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan

2021

Event Horizon, Fugensha, Tokyo

2021

Voice of Terra (Earth), Nihombashi Takashimaya Shinkan, Tokyo

2019

Terra 2019 [Earth Aspects], MYD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Terra, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo, Japan

2016

Earth Scape, Gallery Iwao, Oita, Japan

2016

Listen, Ushio Gallery Tokyo

2015

Land x Face, Canon Gallery Ginza, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Fukuoka

2014

Element - a journey of light through time -, Canon Open Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Land Escapes - Japan -, Canon Gallery Ginza, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka

2010

Land Escapes, Canon Gallery Ginza, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka

2002

Ambient, Hokari Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2001

Speakeasy, Las Chicas D Zone, Tokyo, Japan

2000

Mirror Site, Nikon Salon, Shinjuku, Tokyo

1999

Journey on life, Nikon Salon Juna 21, Shinjuku, Umeda, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

The 45th SSP Exhibition 2024-25, Fujifilm Photo Salon (Tokyo/Osaka/Sapporo), Toyama City Museum of Science, Akashi Astronomical Science Museum and 10 other venues

2024

Special Exhibition: Why always the EOS R System? Canon Open Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2024

5th Jam Photo Gallery, Jam Photo Gallery, Tokyo

2021

Where do photographers come from and where are they going? (two-person exhibition w/Sohei Nishino) Gallery Forest, Kanagawa, Japan

2021

Award-winning works of the Photographic Society of Japan, Fujifilm Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Your EOS, Canon Gallery Tokyo, Osaka

2020

Tokyo Curiosity, Tokyo Curiosity 2020, Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Into the Light, Canon Gallery Tokyo, Osaka

2020

Self-Portrait, Jam Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Tokyo 2020, Springtime of Corona Disaster, Fugensha, Tokyo

2015

The Photographers 2, Canon Gallery Tokyo, Japan

1999

Pointing at the Eyes, Galerie Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan

Video Installations

2013

Circulation, Zushi Media Arts, Kanagawa/Osumi Art Festival, Kagoshima, Japan

2012

Water Silence, Setagaya Monozukuri School Tokyo, Zushi Media Arts Kanagawa, Osumi Art Festival Kagoshima, Saga Castle Cominica Exhibition Saga, Takeda Art Culture Oita, Art Center Miyazaki

Publication

2019

Terra, Akakasha

2019

Nature Photography in the Year 2018 and Photographers, Shogakukan (Co-author)

2015

Land Escapes Face, Traviaggio publishing

2012

Land Escapes, Traviaggio publishing

Awards

2020

Newcomer of the Year Award, The Photographic Society of Japan

2005

7th Itaru Hirama Photography Award, Hummingbird Award

1999

Nikon Una 21

Profile

Born in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture 1977. Graduated from the photography department at the Nihon University College of Art. A visual storyteller, creates works based on personal stories. Grew up in a family that ran a photo studio founded by her grandfather in 1930, and at 18 began studying in the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art. After graduating, worked as a freelance photographer, focusing on portraits. While the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, Suzuki’s hometown of Onagawa was destroyed by the tsunami, and her parents lost their lives. Since that time, has frequently returned to her hometown to record people in the area trying to move forward from the disaster. Since 2020, has been working on her new project, Hojo (fertility), which portrays her experience going through infertility treatment. Her The Restoration Will, self-published in 2017, has been highly acclaimed, receiving, among other awards, the Photobox Grand Prix (Italy) and the 2018 Photo Espana International Division Best Photobook of the Year (Spain).

Selected Exhibitions

2024

Reflection – 11/03/11 Japanese Photographers Facing the Cataclysm, es Rencontres d'Arles (France)

2024

Transcendence, Les Rencontres d'Arles (France)

2022

10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers, Kyotographie (Kyoto)

2020

Twilight Daylight, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo)

2018

The Restoration Will/The Place to Belong, Galeria Miejska Arsenał (Poznan, Poland)

Award

2018

PHOTO ESPAÑA Best International Photography Book of the Year (Spain)

2017

Paris Photo Aperture first photobook -Shortlist(US)

2017

PHOTOLUX Photoboox -Grandprix(Italy)

2017

LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD ARLES -shortlist (France)

2017

Kassel Dummy Award -shortlist (Germany)

2016

Harridan Award -the Juror’s Choice (Japan)

Profile

Born in 1960, Ishikawa Prefecture. Having studied aeronautics in the Air Self-Defense Force and worked in the corporate world, was more than 40 years old when enrolled in the Department of Photography at the Nihon University College of Art. Completed a graduate program and is now an associate professor in the same department, mainly teaching photography basics. Has been researching early 19th century photographic techniques and simultaneously exploring ways to utilize them in contemporary photographic work. His work emphasizes photographic recording in silver black-and-white prints in formats ranging from 8 x 10 inches to 35 mm.
Belongs to 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

2024

Talking with Trees, Collaboration Work, Nunagawa Campus Gallery

2022

FC Echigo-Tsumari, Nunagawa Campus Gallery

2021

Salt and Egg, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

2020

The Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography Faculty Exhibition Sky III, Sony Imaging Gallery, Tokyo

2019

Mugenhoei, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

2019

The Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography Faculty Exhibition Sky II, Sony Imaging Gallery, Tokyo

2019

Murono Then and Now – 1957 to 1972, and 2019, Nunagawa Campus Gallery

2019

Paris perspective Atget et Marvill, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

2018

The Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography Faculty Exhibition Sky, Sony Imaging Gallery, Tokyo

2018

Living with the Earth (Collaboration), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Tokamachi, Niigata)

2017

From our Workplaces, 30th Meeting of the Japan Gerontological Urology Association

2016

Journey through the history of 35mm x 35mm photography, Gallery Storks, Tokyo

2015

Entrance/Geometry, Group Show, Wacca Ikebukuro

2014

Intersection Project – Parallel Intersections

2013

Iron/Carving/Photography, Collaboration with KURAKAKE Jun’ichi, Hoshi to Mori no Uta Museum