下道基行

Born in Okayama in 1978. Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Art and Design, Musashino Art University in 2001. Dropped out of the Graduate School of Tokyo College of Photography in 2003. Debuted with the series "Shapes of War" (2001-2005), which was produced over a four-year period of investigating and photographing the remains of military facilities across Japan. Known for his creative endeavors based on travel and fieldwork, such as his representative series "torii" (2006-2012), which photographs torii gates remaining as relics from the Japanese colonial period in East Asia, and the series "Tsunami Stones" (2015-), which films the current state of rocks that were washed ashore by a tsunami on the coastline of Okinawa's Sakishima Islands over 250 years ago. Since 2020, he has been continuing the project "Setouchi " Museum" to create an archive of the island in collaboration with local people, after moving with his family to Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
His method of expression involves using photographs, events, interviews and other methods to bring to light stories that are buried in our daily lives and are in danger of being forgotten, or everyday things that are too trivial to be clearly conscious of, and then "re" presenting them as events that are still relevant to us in the modern age. He has received the New Artist Award at the 2012 Gwangju Biennale, the Sagamihara New Photography Encouragement Award in 2015, and the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award in 2019. He is an artist who participated in the Japan Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. His work is internationally recognized.
He has participated in art festivals and exhibitions in Japan and has published numerous works.

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