梶井照陰
Syoin Kajii

Profile:
Born in 1976. Graduated from Koyasan University in Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) in 1999.
He has started off to publish his works on photography magazines since he was 16 years old. From 1995 to 1999, he had served Buddhist apprenticeship at Koyasan (Mt. Koya). Then he visited various countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, and Britain, and actively collected materials for his works. In 2004, he was awarded the 1st FOIL Award for his series of pictures in of a succession of waves on a shore in Sado. Following the FOIL Award, a collection “NAMI" was published from FOIL, and he was awarded the Rookie of the Year 2005 by The Photographic Society of Japan for this collection. Recently he has been active as a photographer while being a monk of the Shingon sect in Sado island.


Awards:
2005 The Photographic Society of Japan, the Rookie of the Year award
2004 1st FOIL Award

Collection:
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam