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Jin Akutagawa

Biographical Data:

1992                           Receives the Miyanichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize for the book, The Shining                                     Darkness.

1970                           Finishes hi s study sociology at Hosei University and begins his career as a                                     freelance photographer.  Member of the Japan Professional Photographers                                     Society.

1947                           Born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

Major Photographic Trips and Themes:


1996 to present         Bangladesh: Arsenic contamination of groundwater in the Ganges  Delta and its                                     health effects.

1993                           Namibia: Politics and economics of the newly born Namibia, and the nature of                                     the Namib Desert.
1992                           Brazil: Mercury poisoning in the Amazon River caused by gold mining.
1989                           Namibia: Namibia, the most recent independent country in Africa - the                                     constitutional assembly election and her people.
1973                           India: The faith and lives of Sadhus along the Ganges River.                             
                       
Exhibitions:

1999                           Toorihama Story - 100 Years to Build Up a Fishing Village,                                     Miyazaki

1998                           Whispers of 46 Hundred Million Years, Miyazaki and Fukuoka
1996                           MINAMATA, Paris
1995                           The Shiromi Universe, Miyazaki and Oita
1992                           The Shining Darkness, Fukuoka, Niigata and Miyazaki
1987                           Memories of Plants, Miyazaki and Tokyo
1985                           Recollections on Toroku Mine Pollution, Tokyo
1980                           Minamata - The Scene that Solemnly Exists, Tokyo
1971                           6-3 Year Educational System - The Condition of Night Course Pupils at a                                     Junior High School, Tokyo
Bibliography:

1995                           The Shiromi Universe, Kaichosha

1991                           The Shining Darkness, Ashi Shobo Press 1983 Toroku - People under the                                     Small Heaven, Ashi Shobo Press
1980                           Minamata - The Scene that Solemnly Exists, Minamatabyo Center Soshisha
 

 

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