Kensaku SEKI
Born 1983 in Chiba Prefecture, Kensaku Seki graduated in Health and Sports Science from Juntendo University. From 2007 he served for three years as a lower secondary school physical education instructor in Bhutan before becoming a freelance photographer in 2011.
A devoted portraitist of his subjects’ inner lives, he won the coveted 2017 Yōnosuke Natori Award for Young Photographers for his documentary work on a friend’s struggles after suffering a brain tumor. Seki’s 2018 photobook "OF HOPE AND FEAR", which focuses on Bhutanese youth keen on hip-hop culture, received a Portfolio Review Special Prize at this year’s KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival and ranked among the top 3 nominees for the 2018 Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award.
