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Born in Tokyo, 1940. Graduated from the Department of Photography, Nihon Uni versity, 1963. Worked as a photographer for Nihon Design Center, 1963-1966. Became a freelance photographer, 1966.

Awards
Annual Award, The Photographic Society of Japan (1973), Photography A ward, Kodan Sha Publishment and Culture Prize (1979)

Selected One-person Exhibitions

"Hajime Sawatari", Guardian Garden and Creat ion Gallery G8, Tokyo (1998), "Alice" and "Nadia", P.G.I. (1993), "Taste of Honey", Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo (1990), "Women", Minolta Photo Space, Tok yo (1986), "Hamamoroiso, Sakurako, Katsurako", Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo (1985 ), "Hajime Sawatari", P.G.I. (1985), "Girl from the Sea", Pentax Forum, Toky o (1981), "Angels in the Finder", Ao Gallery (1977), "Alice", Amsterdam (197 6), "Portraits", Ao Gallery, Tokyo (1975), "Alice", Seibu Department Store, Ikebukuro, Tokyo (1973), "Nadia", Wako Gallery, Tokyo (1973)


Selected Group Exhibitions

"Japanese Photography in the 1970s - Memories Fro zen in Time -", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (1991), "Pho tography: 150 Years, Its Lights and Shadows", Printemps Ginza, Tokyo (1989), "Eight Japanese Photographers", P.G.I. (1988), "Paris, New York, Tokyo", Tsu kuba Museum of Photography 1985, Ibaraki (1985), "The Works with Polaroid 20 x 24", Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo (1984), "Photokina '78", Cologne (1978), "Eye, Camera, Reality: Eleven Italian Photographers and Eleven Japanese Photograph ers", Cultural Center of Italy, Tokyo (1977), "Fifteen Photographers Today", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1974)


Public Collections
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo MetropolitanMuseum of Photography, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, New York U.S.A.; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago U.S.A.; Nihon University, Tokyo

Publication
Cigar: Rentaro Mikuni, (1998), Showa: Hiroko Isayama, (1994), A lice, Kawade Shobou Shinsha (1991), Satomi Tezuka, Shogakukan (1981), Girl f rom the Sea, Kawade Shobou Shinsha (1979), Nadia, Asahi Sonorama (1977), Sei ji Ozawa, Shueisha (1975), Alice, Kawade Shobou Shinsha (1973), Nadia, Maini chi Shimbun Sha (1973)