Seiichi Motohashi
1940 – December 20, 2025 was a Japanese photographer and film director. He died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 85.
Seiichi Motohashi
- Born
- 1940 · Tokyo.
- Died
- 2025 · Chino.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer · director
- Education
- Tokyo College of Photography
- Languages
- Japanese
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1940 – December 20, 2025 was a Japanese photographer and film director. He died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 85.
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Seiichi Motohashi (1940–2025) was a Japanese director and photographer. Born in Tokyo, the director died in Chino. Seiichi Motohashi studied at Tokyo College of Photography. Languages used include Japanese.
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Exhibitions (selected)
• 2002: Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. • 2016: Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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• Illustration — A few of the books by Motohashi • The Coal Mine (Kaichosha) • Circus Time (Kawade Shobo Shinsha) • Ueno Station (Heibonsha) • Infinite Embrace (Nishida Shoten) • Nadya’s Village (Touseisha) • Alexei and the Spring (Shogakukan) • A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (Heibonsha) • Performance East and West (Office emu) • Slaugherhouse (Heibonsha) • People on the Seikan Ferryboat (Tsugaru Shobo) • Sense of Place (Nohara) • Tsukiji Fish Market – A People’s Town (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.)
Awards
• 1968: The 5th Taiyousho Award for The Coal Mine • 1995: The Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award and the Society of Photography Award for Infinite Embrace • 1998: The 17th Domon Ken Award for Nadya’s Village • 1998: The 8th Excellent Film Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs for Documentary film Nadya’s Village • 2002: The Readers’ Prize of the Berliner Zeitung and the International Cine Club Prize at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary film Alexei and the Spring • 2013: The Photographic Society of Japan Award for Slaughterhouse and Ueno Station (revised edition)
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- Nihon shashinka jiten ( ) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
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