Contemporary Japanese Photography

Tokyo Taxo Stand, 2005, is included in Naoki Honjo's book "Small Planet" series.
Naoki Honjo uses a medium format camera with a tilt shift lens, which makes environments appear model-like. They are not altered through computer manipulation. Honjo aims to express a sense of falseness about the environments we live in. This gives the viewer the strange sense of looking at an image that is between fiction and reality.
Available book: Naoki Honjo "Small Planet"

1978 Born in Tokyo

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2002 Graduated with BA in Photography from the Tokyo Polytechnic University
School of Arts

2004 Completed MA Media Art Course, Department of Arts at Tokyo Polytechnic,
University School of Arts, Tokyo.
Group Exhibition, Swedish Update Design Express & Midsummer Kafe, Embassy
of Sweden, Tokyo.
Group Exhibition, "Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of
Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

2005 Solo Exhibition, Small Garden, Superstore Inc., Tokyo.
Solo Exhibition, Travelogue, Someya Garou Junbishitsu, Chiba, Japan

2006 Solo Exhibition, Small Planet, Good Design Company Gallery, Tokyo.
Group Exhibiton, Criteriom 67, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo.
Solo exhibit, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibition, Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

AWARDS
2003 Encouraging prize. Fuji Photo Salon New Face Award
Student prize. Epson Color Imaging Contest
2004 New Cosmos of Photography 2004
2007 Winner, Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York