biography
Yoshihiko Ueda
Photographer and Professor of Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University (retired as a professor March 2025).
Born in 1957 in Hyogo Prefecture. Among his many awards are the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, and the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award. In 2011 he launched Gallery 916.
His most noted series/monographs include Quinault, a meditation on the eponymous sacred Native American rainforest; Amagatsu, a backstage study of Sankai Juku dancer-choreographer Ushio Amagatsu; at Home, intimate snapshots of the artist’s family; Materia, capturing primeval sources of life; and A Life with Camera, a collection of works from his massive oeuvre spanning over 30 years.
Recently published are FOREST: Impressions and Memories 1989-2017, capturing the three primeval forests of Quinault, Yakushima, and Nara Kasuga Taisha shrine, and 68TH STREET, a memory of light and shadow falling on a single sheet of white paper.
In 2019, he wrote, directed, and filmed the movie Garden of Camellias, the story of a woman who loses her husband and is confronted with the inheritance tax on her home, depicted through the changes of the seasons of a traditional Japanese house and its garden. Released in April 2021.
上田義彦
写真家／多摩美術大学グラフィックデザイン学科教授(2025年3月退官）
1957年兵庫県生まれ。主な受賞に、朝日広告賞グランプリ、日本写真協会作家賞、東京ADC賞、ニューヨークADC賞など。2011年にGallery 916を主宰。
代表作に、ネイティブアメリカンの聖なる森を捉えた『QUINAULT』、前衛舞踏家・天児牛大のポートレート集『AMAGATSU』、自身の家族にカメラを向けた『at Home』、生命の源をテーマにした『Materia』シリーズ、30有余年の活動を集大成した『A Life with Camera』など。近著には、Quinault・屋久島・奈良春日大社の3つの原生林を撮り下ろした『FOREST 印象と記憶 1989-2017』、一枚の白い紙に落ちる光と影の記憶『68TH STREET』、『林檎の木』などがある。2022年には『Māter』、2023年に最新作『いつでも夢を』を刊行。
2019年、主人を亡くし家屋の相続税に翻弄されていく人びとを、日本の家とその庭の四季の移ろいを通して描いた映画『椿の庭』を監督・脚本・撮影。2021年4月に公開。