Born in 1938 and brought up for a short while in Osaka, Japan, Daido Moriyama spent much of his childhood on the move, due to his father's profession as a travelling insurance salesman. Moriyama studied graphic design and, in the 1960s, moved to Tokyo to work with the VIVO group of photographers, wh[...]

Inspired by Japanese photographers, as well as by William Klein's seminal photography book on New York, Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer. He became the leading exponent of a fierce new photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasiv[...]

*Daido Moriyama emerged from the Provoke movement of the 1960s, which challenged, primarily through its publications, the rigid artistic formalities of the Japanese photographic scene at that time, he created highly innovative and intensely personal work, often depicting what he saw as the breakdown[...]

The most recent projects by Daido Moriyama, one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese photography along with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu. ?Considered one of the great masters of contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is always on the road, a lone trave[...]

The black and white images presented in this body of work have a solitude presence without any human figure. All photos were taken from 2008 to 2010 in Uwajima, city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan. His photography might be considered the opposite of the expressionist Provoke movement lead [...]