​木村肇 1982年 千葉県生まれ 

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Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer born in 1982. He was raised in the Chiba prefecture just outside Tokyo. Having studied architecture and anthropology at university, he began his career in 2006. In 2019, a photo book “Snowflakes Dog Man” was published from CEIBA edition, “Mišo Bukumirović” from Reminders Photography Stronghold as a hand-made edition in 2020 and "Correspondence" was co-published from the (M) éditions and Ibasho gallery in 2022. In recent, he has been working on some projects with the theme of "certainty of memory" in Serbia and Japan.

 

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Book

2022.07 "Correspondence", the (M) éditions and Ibasho gallery, Paris and Antwerp.

2021.10 "scrapbook handmade edition", Self-making

2020.05 “Mišo Bukumirović”, Self-making, Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo

2019.11 “Snowflakes Dog Man”, Ceiba Edition, Siena, Italy.

2016.11 "Path In Between", L'Artiere Edizioni, Paris, France

2015.05 “Snowflakes dog man”, Self-making, Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo

2015.11 "In search of lost memories", Self-making, Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo

2015.06 "scrapbook", Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, Germany

2014.08 "TOKYO ETUDE", Self-making

2012.10 “KODAMA”, Mado-sha, Tokyo, Japan

 

Award & Grant

2021.04 "COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND FOR JOURNALISTS" by National Geographic, USA

2017.04 "One year grant" by POLA Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

2016.04 "One year grant" by the Agency for Japan Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Tokyo, Japan

2014.08 "3rd prize", Kassel photobook dummy award, Kassel, Germany

2014.05 “Kiyosato young portfolio 2014”, Yamanashi, Japan

2013.11 “Top50”, Photolucida Critical Mass 2013, Portland, USA

2013.10 “1st prize”, IPA Photobook Asia award, Singapore

2013.09 “Unseen photobook award 2013” Finalist, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013.06 “Special award”, Konica Minolta FOTO PREMIO, Tokyo, Japan

2013.05 “Honorable mention”, fotovisura grant, USA

2013.03 “Honorable mention”, Format13, Derby, UK

2013.01 “2nd prize”, Vattenfall photo award, Berlin, Germany

2012.11 “Kyushu Sangyo university prize”, Ueno Hikoma Awards, Fukuoka, Japan

2012.10 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012.06 “FOTO VISURA select award” Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2011.11 “Japan society for the art of photography prize”, Ueno Hikoma Award, Fukuoka, Japan

2011.08 “TDPW (Tokyo Documentary Photo Workshop) Scholarship”, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Exhibition

2020.10 Group Exhibition "Reimagining War", Toyokawa Inochi-Ai-Yume Center, Osaka, Japan

2020.08 Group Exhibition "Reimagining War", OGU MAG, Tokyo, Japan

2019.12 Solo Exhibition "Snowflakes Dog Man", Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo, Japan

2019.01 Solo Exhibition "North bound", KIO Kompetenzzentrum Integration Thun-Oberland, Thun, Switzerland

2018.06 Group Exhibition "Tsuka 塚”, The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2017.09 Group Exhibition "FLÂNEUR - NEW URBAN NARRATIVES", Torres Vedras, Portugal. 

2017.02 Group Exhibition "Golden Record", Fotogalleriet, Oslo Norway

2016.09 Group Exhibition "Man and dog", Tobilishi Photo Festival, Georgia

2016.06 Book Exhibition "In search of lost memories", Photobook Bristol, UK

2015.11 Solo Exhibition "In search of lost memories", Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo, Japan

2015.06 Book Exhibition "Scrapbook", Lugano photo days, Lugano, Switzerland

2015.02 Group Exhibition “The Russian moment”, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum and Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia

2014.09 Group Exhibition "Man and dog" and "Path in between", Galerie-T, Paris, France

2014.08 Group Exhibition "Man and dog" and "Path in between", OBSCURA Festival, Penang, Malaysia

2014.08 Group Exhibition “Devotion”, White Box MAP Publika, Kuala lumpur, Malaysia

2014.05 Group Exhibition “KODAMA”, Kiyosato photo art museum, Yamanashi, Japan

2014.04 Group Exhibition “Nature in Tokyo”, Kyotographie 2014, Kodokan, Kyoto, Japan

2014.04 Group Exhibition “Arte Laguna Prize13.14”, Venice Arsenale, Italy

2014.03 Group Exhibition “Tracks", Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2013.12 Group Exhibition “Unfolding Images”, The Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, USA

2013.10 Group Exhibition “The backpage revisited”, Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo, Japan

2013.09 Group Exhibition “Changjiang”, Unseen photobook award 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013.09 Group Exhibition “The Russian Moment” Russian Museum’s Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

2013.08 Group Exhibition “MATAGI” PCO International Photo Exhibition, Guizhou, China

2013.07 Group Exhibition “Tracks”, The Photographic Museum of Humanity, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2013.06 Group Exhibition “Yamadachi”, Konica Minolta Plaza, Tokyo, Japan

2013.04 Group Exhibition “KODAMA”, Theory of clouds, Kobe, Japan

2013.03 Group Exhibition “Tracks” Format13, Derby, UK

2013.02 Group Exhibition “KODAMA”, Bloom gallery, Osaka, Japan

2013.01 Group Exhibition “His Traces”, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2012.12 Solo Exhibition “KODAMA”, Reminders photography stronghold, Tokyo, Japan

2012.11 Group Exhibition “Ueno Hikoma Awards Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2012.06 Solo Exhibition “Yamadachi”, Konica Minolta Plaza, Tokyo, Japan

2011.11 Group Exhibition “Ueno Hikoma Awards Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

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Publications

TIME, The New York Times, Newsweeek, Le Monde Magazine, Boston Globe, COURRiER International, npr, AERA, Kazeno-Tabibito

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