1982년 일본에서 태어나 오사카대학교를 졸업했다. 그는 가난부터 자살까지 사회의 어두운 면에 숨겨진 이야기를 파헤쳐왔다. 대표 작품으로 [happn](2015), [새, 밤 그리고 그때](2017), [The Suicide Boom](2019) 등이 있으며 주로 심층적인 연구를 바탕으로 복잡한 네러티브 구조를 시각화시키는 데 주력해 왔다. 독립 큐레이터 고토 유미는 “일본의 현대 사회, 문화, 역사적 문제에 대한 시각적 서술을 세계에 제시하고 싶을 때 떠오르는 사진가 중 한 명”이라고 평가한다.

개인 전시 이력 (Selected)

2024 To begin with, we must try to do things ourselves, BUG, Tokyo
2023 Doubtfulness, “BELIEF SYSTEM,” Social Issue Gallery SIGNAL, Tokyo Stigma of the Celestial, 229 GALLERY, Tokyo
2022 HIJACK GENI, Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo
2020 Bird, Night, and then, Art in office, Recruit Holdings co.,Ltd Gran Tokyo South Tower, Tokyo
2018 The Suicide Boom, Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo The 16th “1_WALL” Photography Competition Grand Prize Winner Kenji Chiga Exhibition: “Suppressed Voice,” Guardian Garden , Tokyo
그룹 전시 이력 (Selected)
2024 Deep Japan Contemporary Made in Shiga, Omotesando Crossing Park, Tokyo
2023 Ripple?Contemporary Japanese and Chinese Artists Relay Exhibition, ARTiX3, Tokyo
2022 Prix Pictet Japan Award “Fire & Water,” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo Arttaca Group Exhibition, RDX Offsite, Thailand VAANAM ART FESTIVAL, Dr. Ambedkar Mani Mandapam, India
2021 The Exhibition of New Cosmos of Photography 2021, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2019 Dali International Photography Exhibition “Hai, Dozo!??A new generation of Japanese Photographers,” Dali, China 2018 BredaPhoto Festival
2018 “The Suicide Boom,” Electron & MotMot gallery, The Netherlands Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography “happn,” Center of Contemporary Photography, Australia
2017 The 16th “1_WALL” Photography Exhibition, Guardian Garden, Tokyo Young Portfolio Acquisitions
2016, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi

출판 이력

2023 Stigma of the Celestial
2022 HIJACK GENI
2018 The Suicide Boom
2016 Bird, Night, and then.
2016 happn

수상 이력

2022 Prix Pictet Japan Award, Finalist 8th Singapore International Photography Festival, Best Dummy Book Award Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2022 “HIJACK GENI” , Shortlisted
2021 Ones To Watch “OS” British Journal of Photography, Selected New Cosmos of Photography 2021, Excellence Award
2019 Dali International Photography Exhibition, The Best Emerging Photographer Award Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2019 "The Suicide Boom" , Shortlisted
2017 16th “1_WALL” Photography, Grand Prix

컬렉션

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts