About

KAWATEI Masahiro

Member of Japan Professional Photographers Society (JPS)
Kawatei’s focus has long been to document the following: local assets of importance, scenes worth preserving, and landscapes belonging to the realm of memory.

1963 Born in Ashiya City
1986 Employed at Hakuhodo
1993 Graduated from the Osaka College of Photography (now Visual Arts Osaka)

Selected Solo Exhibitions	1992	Shumatsu no Rakuen: Weekend Paradise~Minami-Boso~, Canon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo; Umeda, Osaka
	1994	Dokei: Longing, Mole, Tokyo; Brain Center Gallery, Osaka
	1998	Sakura Blooms, One Year After, Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
	2001	Lost My World, Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
	2002	Namazu Ishi: The Rock Moved by the Quake, Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
	2003	Sakura Blooms, One Year After: Chronicle 1991–2002, Visual Arts Gallery, Osaka
	2004	White Stakes in the Sand —Shonan—, Canon Salon Ginza, Tokyo; Umeda, Osaka; Nagoya; and Fukuoka
	2009	Sound of Waves in the Wind, Nikon Salon, Shinjuku, Tokyo; Osaka
	2009	Boy’s Summer, Canon Gallery Ginza, Tokyo; Umeda, Osaka; Nagoya; Fukuoka; and Sendai
	2011	The Beauty of Planted Forests, Canon Gallery Ginza, Tokyo; Umeda, Osaka; and Nagoya
	2012	Life Along the Kumano Kodo: The Beauty of Planted Forests, Mie Prefectural Kumano Kodo Center
Group Exhibitions	1998	Hyogo Art: The Earthquake and Photograph—Beyond the Document, Ginza, Tokyo; Kobe, Hyogo
	2000	Earthquake and Art: What was Born from 1.17, The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo Painted Landscapes of Ashiya, Ashiya City Museum of Art
	2011	JPS Exhibition: World of Photographers, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
	2015	Sky of Light: 20 Years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake—Ashiya, Ashiya City Museum of Art
	2016	JPS 65th Anniversary—Japan’s Coastline: Japanese and the Ocean Culture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Publications	2005	Sakura Blooms, One Year After, Sokyusha
	2007	White Stakes in the Sand, Ricochet
	2015	Ashiya Sakura, Bookend