Shinichiro Kobayashi Explained

(born 19 October 1956) is a Japanese photographer, and "the leading practitioner if not the founder of the ever-popular 'Ruins' or 'Urban Exploration' genre of photography".^[1]

Life and career

Born in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, on 19 October 1956, Kobayashi graduated from the Economics department of Senshu University in 1978.^[2] After working for studios and publishing, he went freelance in 1984, and set up Studio Rise (Sutajio Raizu,) in 1988. He won various photography awards in the 1990s.^[3]

Prints from Kobayashi's Deathtopia series are in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.^[4]

Awards

• 38th for photography, 2007, for (Nakigara gekijō) and (Tokyo Disneysea).^[5]

Solo exhibitions

• Building the Chanel Lumière Tower. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, March–April 2005. About the creation of the Chanel Ginza building.^[6]
• Umihito 1977–1988 = . Nakata Museum (Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture), October–November 2008.
• Hachinohe City. Kōdansha K-Square building, near Gokoku-ji, Tokyo, October 2009.^[7]
• Shimanami Setouchi-kai . Nakata Museum, March–May 2011.^[8]
• Torigoe now . Ueno Royal Museum, July 2019. About .^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kurt . Easterwood . November Magazine Roundup . Japan Exposures . 1 November 2008 . 8 August 2021.
2. 「小林 伸一郎」, pp. 209–210 within 東京都写真美術館監修, 『現代写真人名事典』. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . (An alternative, English-language title, Biographic Dictionary of Contemporary Japanese Photography, appears within the book, whose content is in Japanese only.)
3. http://www.nakata-museum.jp/upload/press/1244882268.pdf Umihito 1977–1988 =
4. Selecting "KOBAYASHI Shinichiro" within the museum's list of names starting ko brings a list of Kobayashi's prints. (NB the names of the photographers and others are in not alphabetical but gojūon order.)
5. https://www.kodansha.co.jp/about/nextgeneration/archive/22610.html 写真賞
6. http://topmuseum.jp/contents/exhibition/index-910.html Exhibition notice
7. Nyūsu Senshū, 15 October 2009, page 5. Accessed 9 August 2021.
8. http://www.nakata-museum.jp/exhibition/index.php?mode=past&vnum=20&mnum=28 Exhibition notice
9. https://www.kinnohoshi.co.jp/information/detail.php?id=401 金の星社創業100周年記念出版　『鳥越NOW』発売