Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer. He studied architexture and anthropology before starting a career as a photographer in 2006.
Hajime has published several books included "Kodama" (Mado-sha, 2012) which won the IPA Photo Book Asia Award in 2013 and "Scrap book" (Kettler, 2015), both about the Matagi community in Japan. He also self-published two photobooks, both in collaboration with the RPS residency program (Reminders Photography Stronghold) by Yumi Goto : "In search of lost memories" and "Snowflakes Dog Man". The latter saw a new edition published by Ceiba in 2019.
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.Sold out. Presentation by Ceiba: " « My father was a bit plump, he looked grumpy and didn't laugh much in front of me. As time passed by, he became smaller and smaller. Long after I left home to live on my own, my father bought a black dog. Its belly was partly white, which contrasted with its body. The doggy's name is Kuro, which means black in...
.Sold out.Kodama is the account of the long period of time photographer Hajime Kimura spent among the Matagi community, in a remote mountainous region of Japan.The artist had discovered this people in a book, when he was still a student, and had been fascinated by the images, and by the story of their way of life.In a limited number of very powerful...