Shinichiro Kobayashi
Shinichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese photographer, and "the leading practitioner if not the founder of the ever-popular 'Ruins' or 'Urban Exploration' genre of photography".
Life and career
Born in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, on 19 October 1956, Kobayashi graduated from the Economics department of Senshu University in 1978. After working for studios and publishing, he went freelance in 1984, and set up Studio Rise in 1988. He won various photography awards in the 1990s.Prints from Kobayashi's Deathtopia series are in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Awards
- 38th for photography, 2007, for and .
Solo exhibitions
- Building the Chanel Lumière Tower. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, March–April 2005. About the creation of the Chanel Ginza building.
- Umihito 1977–1988 =. Nakata Museum, October–November 2008.
- Hachinohe City. Kōdansha K-Square building, near Gokoku-ji, Tokyo, October 2009.
- Shimanami Setouchi-kai. Nakata Museum, March–May 2011.
- Torigoe now. Ueno Royal Museum, July 2019. About.