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is a Japanese photographer who for many years lived in and photographed the one-time mining town of Yūbari, Hokkaidō. Born in Mie Prefecture, Kazama moved to Tokyo in 1978. He held exhibitions in Tokyo two years later. In 1987 he moved to Nanporo in Hokkaidō, and two years later to Yūbari. Kazama's photographs of the town of Yūbari and its abandoned mines and mining paraphernalia are in black and white, and employ a medium-format camera for detail and small aperture for great depth of field,〔Takao Kajiwara, "Captivated by the beauty of collapse"; in Kazama, ''Yubari,'' 183.〕 often allied with a formal composition. Mitsugu Ōnishi points out that the results "run counter to the ruins photography trend".〔Mitsugu Onishi, "A steady gaze exposes reality to the light"; in Kazama, ''Yubari,'' 181.〕 From 1994 his photographs of Yūbari appeared in the magazines ''Nippon Camera'' and ''Asahi Camera''; he also participated regularly in Higashikawa Photofesta. Kazama won the 18th Higashikawa Special Prize in 2002 and (for his book ''Yūbari'') the PSJ newcomer's award and the 18th Society of Photography Award in 2006.〔PSJ, (a list of past PSJ award-winners ); accessed 6 March 2006; (Society of Photography Award ); accessed 4 April 2007.〕 In March 2006, Kazama moved to Mitaka, Tokyo.〔Ichii, 102.〕 His subsequent photographs of nearby Inokashira Park, which employ the same techniques as his photographs of Yūbari, have been published.〔"Kaze o utsushita machi: Inokashira Kōen" (), ''Asahi Camera,'' September 2007, pp. 65–70. (These and other photographs are also displayed (on Kazama's site ).)〕 Kazama later moved to Sayama (Saitama), where in 2010 he was working more with photograms, mounting both food specimens and potato crisps lightly edited to resemble faces in a specially constructed negative carrier and enlarging from this.〔Yasunobu Ichii (), "Anshitsu no naka de no ichigo-ichie" (), ''Nippon Camera,'' May 2010, pp. 78–79. 〕 ==Books by Kazama== *''Live.'' Self-published, 1980. *''Sorachi tankō isan sanpo'' (, Walks in the remains of the coalmines of Sorachi). Sapporo: Kyōdō Bunkasha, 2003. ISBN 4-87739-088-X. Kazama contributes the photographs. *''Kazama Kensuke shashinshū: Yūbari'' () / ''Kensuke Kazama Photographic Collection: Yubari.'' Sapporo: Jyuryousya, 2005. ISBN 4-902269-14-7. All text and captions in both Japanese and English. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kensuke Kazama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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