Projects
Covid-19, Japan May 2020- Ongoing (more info coming soon)
From Silent Histories Project The Netherlands, Indonesia, UK, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Singapore and Japan Asia Pacific War 2017 - Ongoing (more info coming soon)
Vietnam Planned Nuclear Site/ Culture/ Life 2012 - Ongoing (More info coming soon)
Photobooks (More Title Coming Soon)
Handmade 45 Edition Self-Publishing 2014
Workshop (More Info Coming Soon)
2020.10 Kyotographie Master Class 募集開始しました。
Related Article : WIRED JAPAN 2019 Series Arts of Journalism
2018年に世界3カ国で実施した「写真集づくり」のワークショップを通じて、「写真集」というフォーマットの行き先を考察する。
Events (More Info Coming Soon)
Teer Sheets
About Me
Kazuma Obara (Born in Iwate, Japan, 1985) is a photographer, journalist and book maker based in Osaka, Japan.
1985年岩手県生まれ。大阪府在住。写真家、ジャーナリスト。スイス、フォトエージェンシーKEYSTONE-SDAパートナーフォトグラファー。ロンドン芸術大学フォトジャーナリズム修士課程卒業。2012年、東日本大震災と福島第一原発・原発作業員を記録した写真集『RESET』（ラースミュラー出版/スイス）、2015年には太平洋戦争で被害を受けた子供たちの戦後を描いた「Silent Histories」(RM/スペイン)を発表。長期的視野からチェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故を記録した 『Exposure/Everlasting』（2015）では、世界報道写真賞をはじめ、国際的な賞を多数受賞した。2016年、フランスのFestival Photoreporterより助成を得て、ビキニ水爆実験で犠牲をおった漁師に焦点を当てた「Bikini Dairies」、2018年にはオランダ大使館より助成を得て、第二次世界大戦で日本軍によって犠牲を負った人々の戦後を描く「A story」を現在も進行中。災禍の中で見えなくなっていく個に焦点を当てた作品制作に精力的に取り組みながら、2020年には米ナショナルジオグラフィック協会より助成を受けて、コロナ禍の最前線で働く看護師・介護士による看取りの記録を続けている。本を媒体としやヴィジュアルストーリーテリングのワークショップをヨーロッパを中心に開催する他、国際的なBook Awardの審査員なども務める。写真集は米TIMES紙Best Photobook選出やParis-Photo Aperture photobook Awardショートリストなど写真集は海外で高い評価を得ている。
//Job//
Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co., Ltd. (2009-2011)
Photographer (2011- )
//Education//
Utunomiya University BA in Sociology of Transnational Relations (April 2006 – March 2009)
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication,
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (January 2015 – December 2015)
Photobook making workshop with Jan Rosseel, Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
Photobook making workshop with NICO BAUMGARTEN, Le Photobook Fest, Paris, France (2014)
Photobook Workshop with Teun van der Heijden, 10b Photography, Rome, Italy (2015)
//Photobooks//
Reset Beyond Fukushima (Lars muller publisher/Switzerland 2012)
Silent Histories -Supreme Court Edition (Self Published 2014)
Silent Histories (Editorial RM/Mexico 2015)
30 (Self Published 2016)
Exposure (Editorial RM/Mexico 2017)
//Collection//
V&A, UAL, K MOPA
//Assignments, Publication//
The guardian(UK) Le Point (France), Photography Monthly (UK), El Mundo (Spain), DIE ZEIT (Germany), Work (Switzerland) , Kultur (Switzerland) , Basler Zeitung (Switzerland), Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany), CNN(US), SF (Switzerland), Planetopia (Germany), TF1 (France), ZDF (Germany), WIRED(Japan), IMA(Japna), Days Japan(Japan)
//Awards, Nominations, Best Photobook//
2017
<Exposure>
Photo-eye Best photobooks 2017 selected by Todd Hido
Magnum Graduates Photography Award, Winner
WIRED Audi INNOVATION AWARD, Winner
Hariban Award, Finalist
Nominated for Prix Pictet Japan Award
2016
<Exposure>
World Press Photo Award 2016, People, 1st Prize
Nominated World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2016
Nominated for the Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award 2016
Magnum Lens Culture Award 2016, Finalist
Nominated for Prix Pictet Award
2015
<Silent Histories>
Athens Photo Festival Portfolio Review2015, Winner
Nominated for Arles Author Book Award
Nominated for Kassel Photobook Festival Best Photobook 2015
Nominated for Best Photobook of Photo Espana
2014
<Silent Histories -Supreme Court Edition->
TIME Best Photobooks 2014
Shortlisted for Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards
Claxton Project -The fourteen photobook highlight of 2014
LensCulture Editor’s – 2014 Photobooks of the Year
Telegraph My favourite photo books of 2014 by Photo editor Cheryl Newman
fotografia -THE ULTIMATE LIST OF 2014 BEST PHOTOBOOKS
Photo eye -Best books of 2014 by Colin pantall
Photo eye -Best Books 2014 by Manik Katyal
Nominated World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2014
2013
Critical Mass 2013 Finalist
//Grant//
Cultural Shared Programme/ The Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo(2019)
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation/UK (2016)
Festival Photoreporter/France(2016)
Ito Fundation For International Education Exchange/Japan (2015)
//Exhibitions//
2020
Reimagining War, Tokyo, Japan / 2020
2019
Exposure / Everlasting , THE REFERENCE, Seoul, Korea / 2019
Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2018, K MOPA, Yamanashi, Japan / 2019
Exposure / Everlasting , Photogallery Sai, Osaka / 2019
2018
Prix Pictet Japan Award 2017, Tokyo, Japan
LUMIX MEETS BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #7,
PhotoSaintGermain,Paris, France, UNSEEN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IMA gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exposure / Everlasting , Maruki Museum, Saitama, Japan
Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, France
San, Gallery Interaction 611, Hiroshima, Japan
2017
Revela-T, Spain/ 2017
2016
Festival Photoreporter, France
La Gacilly Photo Festival, France
Athens Photo Festival, Greece
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
World Press Photo 2016
The Train / Schwarzer Montag, Zurich, Switzerland
Silent Histories, Photofusion, London, UK
2015
Athen Photo Festival, Book Award, Athen, Greece
Les Rencontres d’Arles,Book Award, Arles, France
2014
Paris Photo, Book Award, Paris, France
IMA Gallery, Book Selection, Tokyo, Japan
Rokko Photo Festival,Book Selection, Hyogo, Japan
2013
Beyond Fukushima, Hirosima Cultural Center, Hirosima, Japan (2013)
Beyond Fukushima, Centro de historias, Spain (2013)
Beyond Fukushima, Ayuntamiento de Mijas, Spain (2013)
Beyond Fukushima, Reyon city holl, Reyon, France (2013)
Beyond Fukushima. Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain (2013)
Beyond Fukushima, EU headquaters, Brussels, Belgium (2013)
2012
Beyond Fukushima, Osaka Human Rights Museum, Osaka, Japan
Amagasaki city hall, Hyogo, Japan
Beyond Fukushima, Gallery Little House, Kyoto, Japan
Beyond Fukushima, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
Beyond Fukushima, Asahi Newspaper Hall, Nagaoya, Japan
Beyond Fukushima, STANDARD BOOK STORE, Osaka, Japan
Beyond Fukushima, Delfonics Shibuya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Photo Gallery Sai, Osaka,Japan (2012)
Days Photojournalism Festival, Kyoto, Japan (2012)
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France (2012)
ART ETAGE, Basel, Switzerland (2012)
Days Photojournalism Festival, Yokohama, Japan (2012)
Photo Gallery Sai, Osaka, Japan (2011)
//Workshop, Lecture, Talk//
2020
Presentation/Webiner, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK
Presentation, Panel Discussion, Salut, Kyoto, Japan
2019
Dummy Workshop, Keystone, Zurich, Switzerland
Dummy Workshop, Fotografica, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dummy Workshop, THE REFERENCE, Seoul, Korea
2018
Lecture, Panel Discussion, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Conversation with Marc Feustel, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Lecture and Conversation with Dr Ele Carpenter, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK
Lecture, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lecture, KABK, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Lecture, World Press Photo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dummy Workshop, Keystone, Zurich, Switzerland
Dummy Workshop, Fotografica, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dummy Workshop, Lecture, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2017
Lecture, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Storytelling Workshop, Hirosima city University, Hiroshima, Japan
Dummy Workshop, Keystone, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Presentation, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian, Spain
Presentation, World Press Photo Exhibition, Singapore
Presentation, Panel discussion, World Press Photo Award Days, Amsterdom, The Netherlands
Talk with Peter Kennard, Photofusion, London, UK
Book Presentation, Wer-Haus, Barcelona (2016)
2015
Presentation, IC Visual Lab, Bristol, UK
Presentation, Photobook Bristol, Bristol, UK
//Residency//
Docuking Station, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018)