Seiichi Motohashi (本橋 成一, Motohashi Seiichi, born 1940) is a Japanese photographer and movie director.

Awards

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  • 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)

Exhibitions (selected)

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  • 2002: Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
  • 2016: Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Publications (selected)

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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.)

References

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  • Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. (in Japanese) Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
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