is a Japanese Thai photographer.

Biography

Seto was born in

Udon Thani Udon Thani ( th, อุดรธานี, ) is a city in Isan ( Northeast Thailand), the capital of Udon Thani Province and with a population of approximately 430,000 in its urban area the 7th largest city in the country. The city municipality ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

, to a Vietnamese mother and a Japanese father. He moved to

Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miya ...

, Japan in 1961 and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (), graduating in 1973. After further study under

Daidō Moriyama is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine '' Provoke''. Moriyama’s rough, unfettered photographic style makes use of sharply tilted angles, grain ...

, Seto became an assistant to Masahisa Fukase in 1978. In 1981 he became a freelance. Seto has worked on various photographic projects. The best known may be ''Living Room,'' an exhibition and then a book of a strip of single and group portraits of Japanese and foreign residents of Tokyo in their homes. This won the

Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine ''Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is give ...

. Seto in 2008 had his first solo show of photographs in his native country of Thailand. The exhibition featured his first two series of color photographs "Picnic" and "Binran." The show was put together by curator Connelly La Mar with support from the

Japan Foundation The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry ...

in Februar

at H Gallery. Yancey Richardson Gallery ww.yanceyrichardson.comin New York City now represents his work for the U.S. market.

Books by Seto

*''Bankoku, Hanoi 1982–1987'' (). ICP, 1989. . Photograph collection. *''Heya'' () / ''Living Room Tokyo.'' Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1996. . Photograph collection. *''Silent Mode.'' Tokyo: Mole, 1996. Photograph collection. *''Tooi to Masato'' (). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1998. . New edition as ''Ajia kazoku monagatari'' (). Tokyo: Kadokawa, 2002. . Essay collection. *''Picnic.'' Place M, 2005. .

Notes

References

* Hayashida ().
Shashinka Seto Masato no jiden ''Tooi to Masato'' no butai (Udōntani–Tai)
(). ''Yomiuri Shinbun'' 9 May 2005. ''Yomiuri Online.'' *Ono, Philbert.

. ''PhotoGuide Japan.'' A review of the book.

External links

Seto's site
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