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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