Wakaba Noda was born in 1984 in Fukuoka, Japan. She went to Sweden as an exchange student while in high school — “I saw very nice Astrid Lindgren movie when I was little and so I was always interested in Sweden”, says Noda — and since 2006 has been a photography student at Gothenburg University. After graduating from there this... 

Haruto Hoshi was born in 1970 in Kanagawa prefecture. He graduated from the Contemporary Photography Research Institute in 2000. He has published his first book 街の火 (Luminance of the City) in 2007 and is represented by the Third District Gallery Tokyo. Please also see this extended gallery of his work. ... 

© Yasuhiro Ishimoto Yasuhiro Ishimoto was born in 1921 in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Kochi on the island of Shikoku. In 1939 Ishimoto returned to the U.S., and was interned with other Japanese-Americans in Colorado from 1942-1944. He moved to Chicago in 1944 to study architecture at Northwestern University, and a couple of years later... 

Masahiro Kodaira was born in 1972, and graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1997. Kodaira has been pursuing photography since 1994, with several solo and group exhibitions to his name. In addition to his own work, Kodaira has recently been involved in making new prints of the late, renowned avant-garde photographer Kiyoji Otsuji. Please also see... 

Kozo Miyoshi was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1947, and graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1971. Over the last 30 years he has had numerous solo exhibitions both here in Japan and abroad. He has also photographed extensively abroad, most notably in the American Southwest, work that has been collected in the publications... 

Image courtesy of Lumobox/Fujifilm (Switzerland) AG Yukio Ohyama was born in 1952 in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is living in Fujisanroku and has been pursuing a career in photography there since 1990. His works appeared in full-page color in a weekly magazine over a six-months period in 1999. Has documented the wildlife and seasons in the woodlands of... 

Norisada was born in 1980 in Saitama Prefecture. From an early age he was interested in drawing and continued this as a primary means of expression until entering Bunka Fashion College, where studied fashion and clothes design. Five years ago he switched from fashion design to photography and began attending workshops from about three years ago. Most... 

Nobuhiro Fukui was born in 1972 in Naruto City in Tokushima Prefecture. In 2004, he participated in a year-long workshop with photographer Osamu Kanemura. In addition to solo shows in Tokyo (2005) and Berlin (2006), Fukui showed work in two Tokyo Wonder Site group exhibitions (2007): Wonder Seeds 2007 and Tokyo Painting – My Little Everyday Sceneries.... 

Tokihiro Sato was born in 1957 in Yamagata Prefecture. He graduated in 1983 with a MFA in sculpture from Tokyo National University of the Arts. He is well known in Japan and in the rest of the world for his exploration of making photographs of landscapes or common spaces using very long exposures. He proceeded to the construction of various kinds of... 

Takayuki Igarashi was born in 1977 in Yamagata prefecture, and currently lives in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo University of Science in 2004 with a Mathematics degree. Last year, he graduated from the School of Photograph | Picture | Image, which is part of Waseda University’s Art and Architecture School. The above image shot in Tokyo’s...