About the photographer, Bishin JUMONJI (b. 1947)

Bishin JUMONJI (十文字 美信) is a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work. After studying at the Tokyo College of Photography he worked as an assistant to Kishin SHINOYAMA and went freelance in 1971. He had started taking his 'Untitled' series of portraits of people framed to exclude their heads in 1971. In 1972, these appeared in the magazine Camera Mainichi and were shown in the Neikrug gallery in New York; a year later they were included within 'New Japanese Photography', at the New York MoMA. In 1991 he won the Domon Ken Award. His photographs have appeared in Zoom and Stern.

Photo books by Bishin JUMONJI

'Fujisaki' (2020)