ZEN FOTO GALLERY

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1970, Hoshi has been exhibiting his street photography, mainly of alleyways in downtown areas, since the late 1990s. He currently shoots mainly in Roppongi, Yokohama and Nishinari in Osaka. In 2018, he won the Society of Photography Society Award for his 2017 photography collection Whistle, published by Little Big Man. In 2023, he was selected for the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum's “Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 20: Leap Before You Look”. He exhibited a retrospective of his career, including his latest works. His photography books include Luminance of Streets (Galleria Q, 2007), Whistle (Little Big Man, 2017) and Shinjuku 1999–2008 (Zen Foto Gallery, 2024). His work is held in the collections of the Kiyosato Photo Art Museum and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.