写真家
小関一成

Kazuaki Koseki

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1977 born in Yamagata, Japan.
Kazuaki Koseki is an award-winning nature and environmental photographer and visual anthropologist  who evoking the five senses through the four seasons, he photographs the world—weaving the mountains, the forests, and the rivers together, documenting the interaction of natural and human relationships. His work is devoted to the Nature of Yamagata and Tohoku area,Japan.
 
His work has been published in National Geographic Magazine(Japan), The Atlantic, The Daily Mail, My Modern Met, and more. In 2021, Kazuaki was awarded "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" sponsored by the Nature History Museum, and his photography has been awarded LensCulture Critics' Choice, Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY), PX3, Tokyo International Foto Awards, The Big Picture, Nature's Best Photography ASIA, Photoville FENCE.
It has received international acclaim, including photo exhibitions in　the World Economic Forum Davos,the Natural History Museum in London, the California Academy of Sciences, 11 cities in North America, and Russia.
2022 Published the art book "Forest of Misty Vision" (TOSEI Publishing Co.)
 
Since Kazuaki was in his twenties, he has been familiar with fly fishing and has a sense of reverence for nature.He is passionate about protecting ecosystems and wild lands by conveying issues such as ``changes in nature due to global warming'', ``climate change'', and ``environmental problems'' that he has explored and felt in the natural world.Contact him for commissions, licenses and original prints.
 
 
 

Artist statement

 
1977 born in Yamagata, Japan.
Award-winning nature and environmental photographer and visual anthropologist  who evoking the five senses through the four seasons, photographs the world—weaving the mountains, the forests, and the rivers together, documenting the interaction of natural and human relationships. My work is devoted to the Nature of Yamagata and Tohoku area,Japan.


I aim to capture the diversity of nature's uniqueness and beauty.
I was born in Yamagata, Japan, to a family that runs a photo studio that takes family photos and portraits.He has been familiar with photography since childhood and continues to take portraits at the photo studio.
And i continues my expression by photographing the nature of Yamagata and Tohoku with the theme of "the shape of mountains, forests and rivers" and "connection and time".
Since he was in his twenties, he has been familiar with fly fishing and has a sense of reverence for nature.
He continued his creative activities to convey and protect the many issues that I felt while walking in mountains, forests, and rivers, such as "natural changes due to global warming," "climate change," and "environmental problems."
My work expresses that nature is a sublime thing that humans cannot threaten.

My serene and almost surreal expression cultivated by spending a lot of time in fieldwork in nature, exploring and researching nature.
In recent years, I have been influenced by 19th-century French realism, 17th- to 20th-century Japanese paintings, painters Tohaku Hasegawa and Kaii Higashiyama, and contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama.

By exploring and researching nature, I feel the time that nature has traced,At the same time, in Japan, which has a small land area, the distance between nature and people is close,In time from the past to the present, there is a strong connection between people and nature. Of course, a person includes myself.
Currently, global warming, climate change, and environmental problems continue to have a major impact on nature around the world.
It's the path we humans take,
We, who were born on the planet Earth, and nature are also in the midst of circulation and connection.
These perspectives, which I have gained by continuing to see nature while living in Yamagata and Tohoku, Japan,If there is something that can reach the hearts of people in distant worlds,
I believe it is a testament to my natural research and expression of the fact that the world is connected.
 
 
 

 

小関　一成 (コセキ カズアキ)

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1977年山形生まれ。
今を生きる山形で四季を通じて｢五感｣を呼び起こし、山と森と川が織りなす世界を写し続けている環境,自然写真家であり、自然と人間の関係性を記録している映像人類学者です。作品は、山形と東北の自然に捧げられている。
 
20代の頃からフライフィッシングに親しみ、自然への畏敬の念を抱いた事がきっかけとなり、「地球温暖化による自然の変化」や「気候変動」,「環境問題」など、自然界を探求し感じてきた問題を伝え、自然や生態系の保護に情熱を注いでいる。
 
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021,LensCulture Critics' Choice 2021,Photoville FENCE 2020,BigPicture Nature world Photography Competition 2021などで受賞。
世界経済フォーラム(ダボス会議),ロンドン自然史博物館、カリフォルニア科学アカデミー、北米11都市、ロシアなどで展示され、National Geographic web版、ナショナルジオグラフィック誌日本版などへ掲載されている。
2022年「霧幻の水森」(冬青社)を出版。
 

Artist statement

 
1977年山形生れ.山形県山形市在住
今を生きる山形で四季を通じて｢五感｣を呼び起こし、山と森と川が織りなす世界を写し続けている環境,自然写真家であり、自然と人間の関係性を記録している映像人類学者です。作品は、山形と東北の自然に捧げられている。
 
私は自然の独自性と美しさの多様性を捉えることを目指しています。
山形の写真館の家に生まれ幼少期より写真に親しみ、現在も写真館で人物撮影を続けながら、「山と森と川の形」と「時間と繋がり」を主題に山形や東北の自然を撮影し表現を続けています。
20代の頃からフライフィッシングに親しみ、自然への畏敬の念を抱いた事がきっかけとなり、「地球温暖化によって変化する自然」や「気候変動」,「環境問題」など、山や森や川を歩きながら感じた多くの問題を伝え、保護するため制作活動を続けてきました。
作品は、自然は人間が脅かしていけない崇高なものであるということを表現しています。
 
穏やかで繊細な表現は、自然の中でのフィールドワークに多くの時間を費やし自然を探求し研究してきたことで培われました。近年では19世紀フランスのリアリズムや17世紀から20世紀の日本画、画家の長谷川等伯や東山魁夷、現代美術家の草間彌生から影響を受けています。
 
自然を探求し研究することで、自然がたどってきた時間を感じると同時に、国土の狭い日本では自然と人との距離が近く、過去から現在に至るまで、人と自然の間には強い繋がりが存在しています。もちろん人の中には、私自身も含まれています。
現在世界中で地球温暖化や気候変動、環境問題が自然へ大きな影響を与え続けていますが、それは私たち人間が辿っている道のりであり、地球という星に生まれた私たちも、そして自然も、循環と繋がりの中にあります。
日本の山形、東北という土地で暮らしながら自然を視続けることで得たこれらの視野が、遠い世界の人々の心に届くことがあるならば、それは世界は繋がっている事実への自然の探求と表現の証明となると信じています。