- Kensuke Kazama
.
Born in
Mie Prefecture , Kazama moved toTokyo in 1978. He held exhibitions in Tokyo two years later. In 1987 he moved to Nanporo inHokkaidō , and two years later to Yūbari.Kazama's photographs of the town of Yūbari and its abandoned mines and mining paraphernalia are in black and white, and employ a medium-format camera for detail and small
aperture for greatdepth of field , [Takao Kajiwara, "Captivated by the beauty of collapse"; in Kazama, "Yubari," 183.] often allied with a formal composition.Mitsugu Ōnishi points out that the results "run counter to the ruins photography trend". [Mitsugu Onishi, "A steady gaze exposes reality to the light"; in Kazama, "Yubari," 181.] From 1994 his photographs of Yūbari appeared in the magazines "Nippon Camera " and "Asahi Camera "; he also participated regularly inHigashikawa Photofesta .Kazama won the 18th Higashikawa Special Prize in 2002 and (for his book "Yūbari") the PSJ newcomer's award and the 18th
Society of Photography Award in 2006. [ja icon PSJ, [http://www.psj.or.jp/psjaward/all.html a list of past PSJ award-winners] ; accessed6 March 2006 ; ja icon [http://www.shashin-no-kai.com/prize/02.html Society of Photography Award] ; accessed4 April 2007 .]In March 2006, Kazama moved to Mitaka,
Tokyo . [Ichii, 102.] His subsequent photographs of nearbyInokashira Park , which employ the same techniques as his photographs of Yūbari, have been published. ["Kaze o utsushita machi: Inokashira Kōen" (nihongo2|風を映した街：井の頭公園), "Asahi Camera ," September 2007, pp. 65–70. (These and other photographs are also displayed [http://kazama2.sakura.ne.jp/ino.html on Kazama's site] .)]Books by Kazama
*"Live." Self-published, 1980.
*"Sorachi tankō isan sanpo" (nihongo2|そらち炭鉱遺産散歩, Walks in the remains of the coalmines of Sorachi). Sapporo: Kyōdō Bunkasha, 2003. ISBN 4-87739-088-X. Kazama contributes the photographs.
*"Kazama Kensuke shashinshū: Yūbari" (nihongo2|風間健介写真集：夕張) / "Kensuke Kazama Photographic Collection: Yubari." Sapporo: Jyuryousya, 2005. ISBN 4-902269-14-7. All text and captions in both Japanese and English.Notes
ources and external links
*ja icon [http://babachop.net/kazama/ a site about Kazama]
*ja icon [http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~kazama/photo-top.html Kazama's site]
*" [http://www.plainjapan.com/california/depth09.htm Minna shashin yaranaika] ," a fan's page about Kazama
*ja icon Ichii Yasunobu (nihongo2|市井康延). "Monokuro o yaru ningen niwa anshitsu ga hitsuyō" (nihongo2|モノクロをやる人間には暗室が必要, People who do black and white need a darkroom). "Shashin Kōgyō" (nihongo2|写真工業), May 2007, pp. 102–103. An article about Kazama's Mitaka home/darkroom.
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