Hiroshi Suga Explained

(1945-2013) was a Japanese photographer who is particularly known for his photography of Bali.

Suga was born in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, in 1945.^{[1] [2]} He graduated in photography from Nihon University.^[3]

He won the Domon Ken Award in 1987 for photographs of Bali and the Higashikawa Domestic Photographers Award in 1998 for photographs of Burma.^[4] He has been a professor at Nihon University.

Publications

Books by Suga

• Makai, tenkai, fujigikai, Bari . Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983. . Photographs of Bali.
• Bari miwaku: Suga Hiroshi sakuhinshū . Tokyo: Genkō-sha. . Text by Morio Kitahara . Photographs of Bali.
• Ajia mugen-kō: Suga Hiroshi sakuhinshū / Strides Across Images of Asia. Photo Salon. Tokyo: Genkō-sha, 1987. .
• Dai-Nikkō: Suga Hiroshi shashinshū . Tokyo: Kodansha, 1991. . Photographs of Nikkō.
• Hakata Gion Yamagasa . Fukuoka: Kaichōsha, 1995. .
• Etsunan saisai^[5] . Ajia Minzoku Shashin Sōsho 17. Tokyo: Hirakawa Shuppansha, 1996. . Photographs of Vietnam.
• Myanmā ōgon: Suga Hiroshi shashin . Tokyo: Tōhō-shuppan, 1997. . Photographs of Burma.
• Unnan no suito Reikō: Suga Hiroshi shashinshū^[6] . Tokyo: Tōhō-shuppan, 2000. . Photographs of Lijiang, Yunnan.
• Bari-tō dai-hyakka . Tokyo: TBS Britannica, 2001. . Photographs of Bali.
• Mekon 4525km . Tokyo: Jitsugyō-no-Nihon-sha, 2002. . Photographs along the Mekong.
• Kyō no katadomari . Tokyo: Futabasha, 2004. . Photographs of Kyoto.
• Suga Hiroshi ... Amami: Shima ni ikite . Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2007. . Photographs of Amami Ōshima.

Other books with contributions by Suga

• Hakata Gion Yamagasa . Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983. . Text by Hōsei Hasegawa . Photographs of Fukuoka.
• Matsuri to geinō no shima Bali . Music Gallery 3. Tokyo: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha, 1984. . Text by Fumiko Tamura and Teigo Yoshida . Photographs of Bali.
• Bari: Chō-mugen-kai . Tokyo: Ōbunsha, 1987. . Translation of Bali Entranced, with essays by Lyall Watson. Photographs of Bali.
• Ajia gensō: Mōmu o tabi suru . Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989. . Text by Tomomi Muramatsu . Travels across Asia following William Somerset Maugham.
• Shanhai suigan . Tokyo: Kodansha. . Text by Tomomi Muramatsu. Photographs of Shanghai.
• Chiisa na tomodachi: Shakashū . Tokyo: Kodansha, 1996. . With tanka by Machi Tawara.
• Madamu ajian no yasashii gohan . Tokyo: Kōsaidō Shuppan, 2001. . Text by Keiko Moriwaki .
• Kusa o hamu: Kyōto "Nakahigashi" no shiki . Tokyo: President-sha, 2002. . Text by Hisashi Kashiwai . On Japanese food in Kyoto.
• Uchidate Machiko no gyōten Chūgoku . Tokyo: JTB, 2003. . Text by Machiko Uchidate .
• Kore tabe! . Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2003. . About restaurants in Tokyo. Text by Masahiko Katsuya.
• Masahiro no Tōkyō zubari hyakken . Tokyo: Jitsugyō-no-Nihon-sha, 2007. . About restaurants in Tokyo. Text by Masahiro Yamamoto .
• Kizzu fotogurafāzu no mōgakkō no 23-nin ga totta! . Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2008. . Photographs by blind schoolchildren, edited by Suga.
• Sushi: Sukiyabashi Jirō: Bi, shoku, waza . Tokyo: Graphic-sha, 2009. . Also titled Sushi . Text by the sushi chef Jirō Ono, edited by Masahiro Yamamoto.
• Dāisuki na mono pachiri! Fotoarubamu-ehon . Tokyo: Nihon Hyōjun, 2009. . Photographs by blind schoolchildren, edited by Suga.
• Kikoerukai mori no koe: Afan no mori suga hiroshi shashinshū . Tokyo: Studio Debo, 2009. . Text by C. W. Nicol.

Notes and References

1. http://ambition-photogallery.com/profile.php?id=79 Profile of Suga
2. http://www.nikon-image.com/activity/nikkor/club/manager/index.htm Profiles of Nikkor Club consultants
3. http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/writer/1816/ Profile
4. http://town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/phototown/prize/history.htm List of award winners
5. Or Etsunan saisai.
6. Or Unnan no suito Rījan: Suga Hiroshi shashinshū.