Biography
Motohiko Hasui is a photographer and artist born in 1983 and raised in Japan.
He studied Photography in Central Saint Martins Art and Design and London College of Communication. After graduating university, he moved back to Tokyo, his hometown, in 2007. Hasui published his first photobook, compiled from 4 years of snapshots, titled “Personal Matters”, with British publisher Bemojake in 2013. In 2019, “Personal Matters Volume II” was published. In 2020, he published a book of black and white photos titled “for tomorrow” (Libro Arte). In 2021, “Photographs of the Heart”, which he photographed cities under the depressed mood of pandemic was published. In 2019, Hasui was commissioned to photograph the culture of the tea ceremony held in Tofukuji temple in Kyoto. The resulting pictures were presented as photobook made for families of presidents and prime ministers attending the 2019 G20 summit in Osaka.
蓮井元彦 プロフィール
写真家。1983年生まれ、東京都出身。
2003年渡英、Central Saint Martins Art and Design にてファンデーションコースを履修した後、London College of Communication にて写真を専攻。卒業後、2007年帰国、東京を拠点に活動する。2013年、4年間の日常生活を記録したスナップ写真からなる写真集『Personal Matters』(日本語訳「私事」) をイギリスの出版社 Bemojake より出版する。その後、数冊の私家版小冊子の発表を経て2019年、続編の『Personal Matters Volume II』(Bemojake)を出版。2020年にはモノクロのスナップ写真をまとめた写真集『for tomorrow』(Libro Arte)、2021年にはコロナ禍の沈んだ空気の中で、都市を題材にした写真集『写真はこころ』(Printed Union) を出版する。また、コミッションワークにおいては、2018年に吉岡里帆写真集『so long』、2019年にはG20大阪サミット2019にて京都・東福寺で行われたティーセレモニーに際し制作された図録の撮影を手がける。
Individual Exhibitions
2022 Midtone, BD Gallery, Nagoya
2021 Photographs of the Heart, Printed Union, Tokyo
Houses, haku kyoto (KG+, Kyotographie), Kyoto
By This River, Banshan Gallery, Tokyo
Marianna, JAM PHOTO GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 Ura-Yama, Banshan Gallery, Tokyo
Torakichi, CANDLE CAFE & Laboratory ∆II, Tokyo
for tomorrow, QUIET NOISE arts and break, Tokyo
2018 Personal Matters Volume II, QUIET NOISE arts and break, Tokyo
Deep Blue – Serena Motola, AL, Tokyo
2017 Yume wo Miru, artless appointment gallery, Tokyo
2015 10FACES 02, Panof, Tokyo
2014 Personal Matters, Place M, Tokyo
2013 10FACES, Gallery Common, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2022 WAVES, same gallery, Tokyo
2021 Art to T-shirts to Watashi, haku, Kyoto
2020 Kimi wo Omou, for animals by humans, Same Gallery, Tokyo
Personal Matters Polaroids / Polaroid Stories, Zakura, Tokyo
2016 Anata no Mizu ni Naritai, ROCKET, Tokyo
2015 Art photograph group show, Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Secret, Ricoh Ring Cube, Tokyo
Kioku no Sakura, New York Photo Festival
Kioku no Sakura, Tokyo Photo
Editor’s Choice 2011, Ricoh Riing Cube, Tokyo
2010 Style, Gallery 21, Tokyo
101 Allegories and words to represent the world, Primo Piano Living Gallery, Italy
Publications
2021 Photographs of the Heart, Printed Union, Tokyo
Marianna, Migo Books, Tokyo
2020 Personal Matters Polaroids, self-published
for tomorrow, Libro Arte, Tokyo
2019 Personal Matters Volume II, Bemojake, London
2018 so long – Riho Yoshioka Photo Book, Shueisha, Tokyo
Deep Blue – Serena Motola, Self-published
2016 Yume wo Miru, Bemojake, London
2015 10FACES 02, W
2014 Personal Matters, Bemojake, London
2013 10FACES, super sonic, Tokyo
2011 RAIKA, self-published
Editorial Contributions
M le magazine du monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly, New York Times, Financial Times Magazine, AD Magazine, The Travel Almanac, Dazed & Confused, Purple Fashion Magazine, 032c, Modern Matter Magazine, Carpark Magazine, Muse Magazine, Disegno, Wired, Numero Tokyo
Clients
Christian Dior Couture, UNIQLO, Descente, TOYOTA, Nissin, Softbank, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Featured Articles
CAPA, May 2021
IMA ONLINE, 2021
Fused Magazine, 2019
HOTSHOE
EyeScream
Dazed Digital, 2015
PAPER JOURNAL, 2014
WEST END CAMERA CLUB, 2014
aPhotoEditor, 2014
