Hiroyoshi YAMAZAKI
山崎弘義
Hiroyoshi Yamazaki was born in 1956 in Saitama, Japan. In 1980, after completing his studies at Keio University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy, he began working at a city government office and was assigned to the Public Affairs Division, where he used an SLR camera for the first time. He turned to photography in 1984, inspired by Michio Yamauchi’s street snapshots. In 1986, he participated in Foto Session ’86 and had the privilege of studying under Daido Moriyama. Yamazaki then graduated from the Tokyo Photographic College, Second Department of Photojournalism in 1987. From 2012 to 2021, he taught part-time at the Nippon Photography Institute. Since 2017, he has been a running member of Gallery Yocto and has organised 12 photo exhibitions of his “Lake Town” series. His previous publications include Diary — Portraits of Mother and Garden (2015, Ohsumi Shoten), Crossroad (2019, Sokyusha) and Smell on the Street (2022, Sokyusha).