AKIHITO YOSHIDA
AKIHITO YOSHIDA Born in Miyazaki in 1980,
Akihito Yoshida earned a degree in Special Education from Shiga University and then taught Japanese for a year at a university in Thailand.Upon returning to Japan,He taught at a primary school in Kyoto for six years and then, in 2010,began a career as a documentary photographer.
He has self-published two photobooks-Brick Yard(200 copies,2014)and Tannery (500copies,2016)-and “The Absence of Two”(111copies,August 2017),documenting the lives of his grandmother and cousin.
Winner of the 2016 Nikkei National Geographic Photography Award for People,he was also short-listed for the 2015 Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Photo book Award.
Yoshida lives in Kyoto.
BOOK
“THE ABSENCE OF TWO”
Seigensha 2019
“UNE DOUBLE ABSENCE”
Editions Xavier Barral 2019
“The Absence of Two”
self publish 111 limited edition 2018
“Tannery”
self publish special edition 100 limited editions
and standard edition 400 limited editions
“SAKURADA”
not for sale
“Brick Yard”
self publish 200 limited editions 2014
AWARD
ITALY dummy book Award nominated
2016
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO PRIZE 2015
People category First Prize
EMON PHOTO AWARD special prize
2015
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award
First PhotoBook Shortlist 2015
konica Minolta Photo Premio Grand Prize2014
KYOTO GRAPHIE PLUS BEST4 EXHIBITION
2014
Konica Minolta Photo Premio Prize
2013
Kyoto Photograph bien’nāre
Ueno Hikoma Awards, Japan Photography Art Encouraged Prize, Mainichi Newspaper, Japan
2012
Ueno Hikoma Awards, Japan Photography Art Encouraged Prize, Mainichi Newspaper, Japan
2011
EPSON Gallery Spot Light Institution
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
THE ABSENCE OF TWO
FishEye Gallery Paris France
2019
GONBE MANE
Gallery SUGATA Kyoto
Bus Helper
Bangladesh Return Project
Diary
Seikosha Bookstore Kyoto
THE ABSENCE OF TWO
Books Kubrick Fukuoka
2018
THE ABSENCE OF TWO
Reminders Photography Stronghold Tokyo
2017
The Absence of Two
Lianzhou International Photo Festival Lianzhou china
The Absence of Two
Seikosha Book Store Kyoto Japan
NGO No border without children Photo Exhibition “Victims” “
Gallery Sirius Tokyo Japan
Sky Burial
Gallery SUGATA Tokyo Japan
The Absence of Two
Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo Japan
Sky Burial
Gallery SUGATA, Kyoto Japan
On Labor
EMON PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo Japan
Falling Leaves
KYOTOGRAPHIE Main Program Exhibition
2016
Tannery
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Tokyo Japan
Tannery
Daikanyama Kitamura Camera Shop, Tokyo Japan
Tannery
EMON PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo Japan
Tannery
Seikosha Book Store, Kyoto Japan
2015
Calico Factory Artisans
Gallery SUGATA KYOTO Japan
Brick Yard
Art Space IROSORA Gallery, MIyazaki Japan
Brick Yard
Konica Minolta Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Brick Yard
Keibunsha BookStore, Kyoto Japan
2012
Calico Factory Artisans
IROSORA Gallery, Miyazaki Japan
2011
Warm Light
Paxi house, Tokyo, Japan
Calico Factory Artisans
EPSON Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Encounter Journey
Bar Sentakusen, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Four Wish
NPO Children without Border, Tokyo Japan
Brick Yard
PHOTO PREMIO GRAND PRIZE EXHIBITION, Konica Minolta Gallery,Tokyo Japan
2013
Kyoto Photograph bien’nāre2013
Kyoto Japan
Brick Yard Workers
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Painting Artist Murabayashi Yuki
Tokai Tokyo Bond Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Portrait of the Bangladesh Workers
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan