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Born in Osaka in 1947. Graduated from the Kyushu Sangyo University Faculty of Arts Department of Photography and became professor at the Tokyo Shashin Senmon Gakko the same year. Became a professor at the Osaka Shashin Senmon Gakko (now: Visual Arts College Osaka) in 1972, and became head of the school in 1998. In 2015 he was appointed head of the Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography in Nara City. Continues to engage in photography both as a photographer and as a photography educator.
His photobook “A Radiant Land: Kii Peninsula” won the Annual Award of the Japan Photographic Society, his series “A Radiant Land with Thousands of Years” the Ina Nobuo Award. His photobook “Osaka” won the the 23rd Photographic Society Award and the 27th Higashikawa Prize’s Hidano Kazuemon Award.
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The legendary photo-dojinshi (self-published zine) Chihei, first published between 1972 and 1977, saw a revival in 2018 with issue 11.
While Chihei’s 11th issue focused on a geographical limitation—the city of Osaka—for its seven participating photographers, Chihei 12 took a different approach:
With the abdication of emperor Akihito on April 30, 2019, and the ascension of the emperor Naruhito on May 1, 2019, Japan entered into a new age. All the photographs in Chihei 12 were taken during these two historical days and capture the reality of Japan in the year 2019 in all its facets.
Contributing photographers: Shunji Dodo – Jun Abe – Shinya Arimoto – Arata Dodo – Tewan Gon – Shogo Yamada – Yasuko Noguchi – Kosato Matsuoka – Nao Manabe – Masashi Urashiba
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