A Japanese photographer and movie director.

Publications

The Coal Mine (Kaichosha)
Circus Time (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
Ueno Station (Heibonsha)
Infinite Embrace (Nishida Shoten)
Nadya’s Village (Touseisha)
Alexei and the Spring (Shogakukan)
A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (Heibonsha)
Performance East and West (Office emu)
Slaugherhouse (Heibonsha)
People on the Seikan Ferryboat (Tsugaru Shobo)
Sense of Place (Nohara)
Tsukiji Fish Market – A People’s Town (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002 - Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
2016 - Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Awards

1968 - The 5th Taiyousho Award for The Coal Mine
1995 - The Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award and the Society of Photography Award for Infinite Embrace
1998 - The 17th Domon Ken Award for Nadya’s Village
1998 - The 8th Excellent Film Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs for Documentary film Nadya’s Village
2002 - The Readers’ Prize of the Berliner Zeitung and the International Cine Club Prize at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary film Alexei and the Spring
2013 - The Photographic Society of Japan Award for Slaughterhouse and Ueno Station (revised edition)

Books from Seiichi MOTOHASHI