Michio Yamauchi


Michio Yamauchi is a Japanese street photographer focusing in human photography based in Tokyo.

Life and career

Michio Yamauchi was born in a mountain village in Nishimikawa, Aichi on October 23, 1950. He studied in the literature department at Waseda University, and after graduating, at 29 years old, entered night school at the Tokyo School of Photography.
In 1982, the same year he graduated from the Tokyo School of Photography, Yamauchi took part in an independent gallery known as Image Shop CAMP. During this time, Yamauchi studied under Daidō Moriyama. Afterwards, Yamauchi spent over 10 years as a freelance photographer, mainly participating in independent galleries where he would display photos he took around Tokyo. Yamauchi eventually focused on publishing books of his photography after publishing "To People" and "City"　. From this point on, Yamauchi, whilst continuing photography in Tokyo, began heading overseas as well.

Awards

In 1997, Yamauchi won the 22nd Ina Nobuo Award for his exhibition "British Territory Hong Kong" at the Ginza Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Japan. Then, in 2011, he received the 20th Hayashi Tadahiko Award for his exhibition and photo album titled "Keelung". This award is given annually by Shunan city and the Shunan City Museum of Art and History, started in 1992, in honor of the photographer Tadahiko Hayashi.

Collections

Yamauchi's collections can still currently be seen at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Shunan City Museum of Art and History, the Nikon Salon and other places throughout Japan.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1982 - "Noraneko - Stray Cats", Image Shop CAMP, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 1983 - "Tokyo vol. 1 - vol. 10", February 1983 - February 1984, Image Shop CAMP, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 1984 - "Tokyo, That One", Minolta Photo Space, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 1985 - "Tokyo, Showa Year 60, August", Minolta Photo Space, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 1986 - "Tokyo, February '83 to February '86", Olympus Gallery, Kandaogawa Town, Tokyo
  • 1992 - "To People", Minolta Photo Space
  • 1994 - "Shanghai Summer", Ginza Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 1997 - "British Territory Hong Kong", Ginza Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 1999 - "Waikiki", Ginza Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 2002 - "Tokyo,東京", Ginza Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo
  • 2004 - "Calcutta", Konika Minolta Plaza, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 2005 - "Holiday", independent gallery, Galleria Q, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 2008 - "Tokyo", Sokyusha, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 2010 - "Tokyo", December 2009, tōkyō 2009.12), 3rd District Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • 2012 - "To People II", Sekka Borderless Space, Nezu, Tokyo

Books

  • City, Sokyusha, 1992
  • To People, independently published, 1992
  • Shanghai, independently published, 1995
  • , Sokyusha, 1997
  • Noraneko - Stray Cats, Mole,., 1999
  • TOKYO,Tokyo, Wise Publishing,., 2003
  • , Sokyusha,., 2003
  • Holiday "Waikiki", YK Publishing, 2005
  • , Rathole Gallery, 2008
  • Tokyo 2005-2007, Sokyusha, 2008
  • Keelung, Grafica,, 2010
  • Tokyo 2009-2010, Sokyusha, 2012
  • To People II, Sokyusha, 2012
  • DHAKA Tokyo-kirara sha Co., ltd 2015

Other publications/mentions