Hiroshi Sugimoto1948~ 杉本博司

Hiroshi Sugimoto, born February 23, 1948, in Tokyo, is a Japanese photographer, contemporary artist, and architect. After graduating from St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University in 1970, he studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and moved to New York in 1974. He is internationally renowned for his ongoing photographic series including “Dioramas” (1976–), “Theaters” (1978–), and “Seascapes” (1980–), produced with an 8×10 large-format camera and extremely long exposures. He has received numerous honors, including the Mainichi Art Award (1988), the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), and the Praemium Imperiale (2009), and was named a Person of Cultural Merit by Japan in 2017. He designed the Enoura Observatory cultural complex in Odawara and continues to live and work between New York and Tokyo.