Kitchen Minoru出生在美國(guó)德克薩斯州的沃斯堡，兩歲的時(shí)候父母離異后便被帶回日本國(guó)內(nèi)生活，因此他腦中根本沒有故鄉(xiāng)的記憶。2005年，他獲得了第33屆日本廣告攝影師協(xié)會(huì)大獎(jiǎng)，之后他辭去了在房地產(chǎn)公司的職務(wù)正式成為一名自由攝影師，2009年再次獲得該獎(jiǎng)。
Kitchen Minoru最引人矚目的作品當(dāng)屬“多摩川的人”系列。這個(gè)系列的產(chǎn)生是一次偶然的機(jī)會(huì)在多摩川拍外景看到一群放學(xué)的學(xué)生在夕陽下沿著河岸走過，他被那一刻深深打動(dòng)，害羞的他猶豫再三才下定決心上前詢問這些孩子是否愿意接受他的拍攝。學(xué)生們欣然接受，于是就有了第一部分的“多摩川的人”。Kitchen Minoru從此找到了自己攝影創(chuàng)作的方向，一直在多摩川的河岸旁守候走過的人，也逐漸拍下其他不同的人，其中有工人，有交通協(xié)管員，有消防隊(duì)員，有戀人，也有孩子。這些作品全部為擺拍，大家的目光一律都虔誠(chéng)的望向正在落下的夕陽。攝影師認(rèn)為，夕陽是一天中最特別的時(shí)刻，人們往往能在那一瞬間看到一個(gè)真實(shí)的自我。而屏幕前的你在看到這些夕陽下的人的時(shí)候，是怎樣的情緒呢？感傷、孤獨(dú)、幸福，抑或是滿足？
Kitchen Minoru was born in Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of two, his parents had divorced, and as Kitchen Minoru was brought up in Japan, he had no recollection of the Texas landscape or his original family home. He had suffered a complex because of this ever since. He graduated from Hosei University. He won the 33rd Japan Advertising Photographers’ Association Awards in 2005. After a brief period of employment in the realty business, he realized his dream of becoming a freelance photographer in 2005. He won 37th Japan Advertising Photographers’ Association Awards in second time in 2009. His most famous works is “The People of Tamagawa” series, shoting the people passed by the riverbank of Tamagawa in the sunset.
