Kiyoshi Yagi

Portrait of the Eskimo and the Aleut

Feb 15 - Mar 31, 2006
Photo Gallery International

Kiyoshi Yagi

Portrait of the Eskimo and the Aleut

Feb 15 - Mar 31, 2006
Photo Gallery International

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Kiyoshi Yagi

Born in Nagano, Japan in 1968. After graduating from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in journalism, he studied under Takeshi Mizukoshi, a Japanese nature photographer. He has been traveling to arctic regions to photograph indigenous peoples, the Eskimo and the Aleut as well as the nature surrounding them with a large format camera since 1994. He produces his prints using platinum paper. He was the recipient of the Photographic Society of Japan, Newcomer’s Award in 2004 and the Tabuchi Yukio Award 2nd prize in 2005. He published his first book sila in 2011.

 

 

Exhibitions at PGI

Silat Naalagaq, 2015
sila, 2011
Across the Arctic 1994-2007, 2007
Portrait of the Eskimo and the Aleut, 2006