Masato Seto

Template:Short description is a Japanese Thai photographer.

Biography

Seto was born in Udon Thani, Thailand, to a Vietnamese mother and a Japanese father. He moved to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1961 and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (Template:Category handler), graduating in 1973. After further study under Daidō Moriyama, Seto became an assistant to Masahisa Fukase in 1978. In 1981 he became a freelance.

Seto has worked on various photographic projects. The best known may be Living Room, an exhibition and then a book of a strip of single and group portraits of Japanese and foreign residents of Tokyo in their homes. This won the Kimura Ihei Award.

Seto in 2008 had his first solo show of photographs in his native country of Thailand. The exhibition featured his first two series of color photographs "Picnic" and "Binran." The show was put together by curator Connelly La Mar with support from the Japan Foundation in February [1] at H Gallery.

Yancey Richardson Gallery [www.yanceyrichardson.com] in New York City now represents his work for the U.S. market.

Books by Seto

• Bankoku, Hanoi 1982–1987 (Template:Category handler). ICP, 1989. Template:ISBN. Photograph collection.
• Heya (Template:Category handler) / Living Room Tokyo. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1996. Template:ISBN. Photograph collection.
• Silent Mode. Tokyo: Mole, 1996. Photograph collection.
• Tooi to Masato (Template:Category handler). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1998. Template:ISBN. New edition as Ajia kazoku monagatari (Template:Category handler). Tokyo: Kadokawa, 2002. Template:ISBN. Essay collection.
• Picnic. Place M, 2005. Template:ISBN.

References

• Template:In lang Hayashida (Template:Category handler). "Shashinka Seto Masato no jiden Tooi to Masato no butai (Udōntani–Tai)" (Template:Category handler). Yomiuri Shinbun 9 May 2005. Yomiuri Online.
• Ono, Philbert. "Living Room, Tokyo — Heya". PhotoGuide Japan. A review of the book.

External links

• Template:In lang Seto's site