KENSAKU SEKI
KENSAKU SEKI
Born 1983 in Chiba Prefecture, He graduated in Health and Sports Science from Juntendo University. From 2007 he served for three years as a lower secondary school physical education instructor in Bhutan before becoming a freelance photographer in 2011. He started the photographer's activities in 2011. He is a photographer who produces documentary works. His latest works are the works of young people in Bhutan fascinated by HIPHOP "OF HOPE AND FEAR" and "GOKAB". Currently he is working on an athlete-themed work.
【Award】
2019 KYOTO GRAPHIE Kyoto International Photo Festival 2019 Portfolio Review FUJIFILM AWARD grand prix
2019 Head On photo festival Head On Portrait Prize 2019 semi-finalist
2018 Nikon Salon Photography Year Award · 20th Miki Jun Award Final nominated
2018 Photobook Week Aarhus PWA Dummy Award 2018 Top3
2018 Singapore International Photography Festival 2018 Photobook Open Call Finalist
2018 KYOTO GRAPHIE Kyoto International Photo Festival 2018 Portfolio Review FUJIFILM AWARD special prize
2017 The 13th Yonosuke Natori Photography Award. grand prix
2017 APA"Japan Advaertising Photographers' Association"Award 2017 grand prix
【Photobook】
2:16.22 (private edition)2020
OF HOPE AND FEAR (private edition)2018
【Exhibition】
2020.7.11-7.26 「2:16.22」@Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery
2020.7.4-9.20 「GOKAB」@Le festival des Promenades photographiques, Vendôme, France
2019.11.29-12.12「2:16.22 —the other side of the record」TOKYO GRAPHIE2019 @FUJIFILM SQUARE Tokyo
2019.5.7-5.26「OF HOPE AND FEAR」@head on photo festival, Wedge Gallery in Sydney
2018.10.26-11.8 「GOKAB -Bhutanese HIPHOP-」TOKYO GRAPHIE Opening exhibition @FUJIFILM SQUARE Tokyo
2018.4.26-5.2 「OF HOPE AND FEAR」 @Nikon salon Osaka
2018.3.28-4.3 「OF HOPE AND FEAR」 @Nikon salon Ginza
2018.3.7-3.11 Yonosuke Natori Photo Award exhibition 「Limited future」@Fukushima civic gallery
2018.2.16-2.22 Yonosuke Natori Photo Award exhibition 「Limited future」@FUJIFILM photo salon Osaka
2018.1.26-2.1 Yonosuke Natori Photo Award exhibition 「Limited future」@FUJIFILM SQUARE Tokyo
2016.9.27-10.7 「A Time for Festival, A Time for Prayers」＠Konicaminolta Plaza
2016.5.28 「Little Bhutan Days 」＠Soup Stock Tokyo
2016.4.15-5.12 「Small eyes of Bhutan」＠Earth plaza
2015.5 「Learning House in Burma」@Gallery Kan
2013-2014 「Smile from Bhutan」@All mont-bell salon in Japan
2011.11 「Look at now, live present time, Bhutan」@JICA earth plaza
2010.4 「Smile of Bhutan」@Yokoshibahikari Library Gallery
【Group Exhibition】
2019.2.1-3.3 #005 PHOTO Playground@Ginza Sony Park
2019.1.5-1.16 Tamami Iinuma, Kensaku Seki, Yuka Yanazume Photo exhibition「Sanyou no Hikari」@AiDEM Photo Gallery Sirius
2017.10.1-15 RPS PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT EXHIBTION @ REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD gallery
2017.3.4-19 APA Award2017 exhibition 「92-old-man in Bhutan」@Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2016.5-7 Bhutan Exhibition Japan-Bhutan Diplomatic Relations 30th Anniversary Project @The Ueno Royal Museum
【SNS】
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