Japanese photographer and movie director (born 1940)
Seiichi Motohashi (本橋 成一, Motohashi Seiichi, born 1940) is a Japanese photographer and movie director.
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)
Exhibitions (selected)
2002: Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
2016: Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Publications (selected)
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.)
References
Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese) Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
