Masato Ninomiya is a self-taught photographer based in Kanagawa, Japan. He is a landscape photographer. He works on several photographic projects. His interests are focusing on the history of his hometown of Kanagawa and the relationship with nature and environment. He likes medium format film photography for these landscape projects. All his black and white photographs were home developed by himself. His “Wintertag” series was one of the 12 winners of the FotoFilmic JRNL Issue 11, published in Canada. Some of his photography series have been selected as shortlists for the URBANAUTICA Institute Awards and International Photography Grant in Europe, as well as the ‘IMA next’ in Japan. His photographs were featured on Phases Magazine, Don’t take pictures (Photo of the day), Landscape Stories Magazine blog, Incandescent zine, etc. This website was launched in October 2003. “Still Life” was his music band name in the early days, but since 2007 it has been used to mean “Still images & An inseparable part of his life”.

神奈川県在住。主に神奈川県の歴史とその自然や環境との関係に焦点を当てた風景写真シリーズの他、瀬戸内などのルーツに基づく風景スナップをライフワークにしています。

*Sorry, I don’t have a Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter account. And my English isn’t so good, so feel free to ask me if there is anything unclear.

Cooperation
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Series Coastline, Tokyo 2020).
Translated by Natsuka Watanabe and Natsuho Taira (Series Wintertag, Borderland).

Copyright
All images and text © Masato Ninomiya
All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without written permission is strictly forbidden.