​Yosuke Kashiwakura

ネイチャーフォトグラファー柏倉陽介について

 

文明と野生の衝突地帯に生きるオランウータンのリハビリテーションをテーマとして、制作に15年をかけた写真集『Back to the Wild 森を失ったオランウータン』を上梓。『オランウータンと緑の津波』と題した巡回展を北海道旭山動物園、えこりん村、円山動物園にて開催した。世界最大の霊長類保護支援団体であるBOS財団が主催する「MOVING PICTURES展」をはじめ、米国立スミソニアン自然史博物館、ロンドン自然史博物館、国連気候変動枠組条約締約国会議にて作品を展示している。LensCulture Earth Awards、ナショナルジオグラフィック国際フォトコンテスト、ワイルドライフフォトグラファー・オブザイヤーなどに入賞し、Monochrome Photography Awards / ランドスケープ・フォトグラファー・オブザイヤーを受賞。Monochrome Photography Awardsの審査員も務めている。2025年より「Endless」と題した環境撮影プロジェクトを開始した。現在は写真家を続けながら、北海道恵庭市にてエコロジーをテーマにした「えこりん村」でのディレクター業務や北海道文教大学客員教授なども務めている

 

受賞歴

◼︎2020／ワイルドライフフォトグラファー・オブザイヤー（都市動物部門入賞）

◼︎2015／レンズカルチャー「地球写真賞」単一写真部門2位、パリ写真賞「PX3」野生動物部門1位＆地球写真部門1位

◼︎2014／モノクローム・フォトグラフィー・アワード（ランドスケープ・フォトグラファー・オブザイヤー2014受賞）

◼︎2013／ナショナルジオグラフィック国際フォトコンテスト（自然部門入賞）

◼︎2007／ネイチャーズ・ベスト・インターナショナル・アワード（自然と人々部門入賞）

出版

◼︎2024／『Back to the Wild 森を失ったオランウータン』（A&F BOOKS）

◼︎2020／写真集「倒木」（冬青社）

◼︎2017／気候変動に関する教育「The Climate Smart Evolution」（ルーシー財団）

◼︎2015／LensCulture Earth Awards Book（LensCulture）

写真展示

◼︎2024／『オランウータンと緑の津波』展（北海道旭山動物園、えこりん村、円山動物園）

◼︎2020／ワイルドライフフォトグラファー・オブザイヤー写真展／ロンドン自然史博物館（イギリス）

◼︎2019／CLIMATE SMART EVOLUTION for 2019 SCUDERIA ART NIGHT（イタリア）

◼︎2016／世界大都市気候先導グループ会議（メキシコ）

◼︎2015／国連気候変動枠組条約第21回締約国会議（フランス）

◼︎2007／米国立スミソニアン自然史博物館ネイチャーズ・ベスト・インターナショナル・アワード・エキシビジョン／

米国立スミソニアン自然史博物館（アメリカ）

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Born in Yamagata, JAPAN

​Contact : kashiwakura7@gmail.com​

His main areas of photography include natural landscapes, humans in confrontation with nature, and environmental protection, among others. He has exhibited his environmentally-themed work at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the U.S., the Natural History Museum in London, C40 World Mayors Summit, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference. His work has also been included in publications by the Deutsches Museum and the Natural History Museum, LensCulture magazine, as well as other domestic and international media. His awards include the Monochrome Photography Awards/Landscape Photographer of the Year, Paris Photography Prize, PX3/Gold Medal in Wildlife Photography and Gold Medal in Earth Photography, LensCulture Earth Awards/2nd Place in Single Image Photography, National Geographic International Photo Contest/Nature Category Honorable Mention, and Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Highly Commended. Since 2023, he has also served as a judge for the Monochrome Photography Awards.
In recent years, he has published articles on environmental issues, essays on photography, as well as photographs and videos in domestic and international media while shooting for magazines and advertisements in Japan and abroad. In addition, he has accompanied adventurer Yasunaga Ogita and a group of young people on a 600-km expedition to the Arctic Circle. He has been continuously presenting works on the landscapes of the rehabilitation of orangutans living in the collision zones between civilization and the wild, and in 2024 he published a photo book "Back to the Wild: Orangutans Who Lost Their Forest," which he had been working on for 15 years.​

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2007 

Awards : Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2007 (People in Nature Category Highly Honored)
Exhibitions : Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Exhibition (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Published : The Nature’s Best Photography Winners Collector’s Edition (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

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2009 

Awards : International Photography Awards 2009 (Nature Underwater Professional Category 3rd place) Published : Annual International Photography Awards Book (Lucie Foundation)

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2013 

Awards : National Geographic Photo Contest 2013 (Nature Category-Honorable Mention), Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2013 (Outdoor Adventure Category Highly Honored), International Photography Awards 2013

(Special Other_S Professional Category 2nd place)
Published : Annual International Photography Awards Book (Lucie Foundation), The Nature’s Best Photography Winners Collector’s Edition (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History), Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc 10th Edition Book (Autour du Mont Blanc)

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2014 

Awards : Monochrome Photography Awards (Landscape Photographer of the Year 2014) Published : Monochrome Photography Awards Winner Book (Monochrome Photography Awards)

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2015 

Awards : LensCulture Earth Awards 2015 (Single Image Category 2nd Place), PX3 Paris Photography Prize (Nature Wildlife 1st Place Winner & Nature Earth 1st Place Winner)

Published : LensCulture Earth Awards 2015 Winners and Finalists (LensCulture), Annual PX3 Book (PX3),
Welcome to the Anthropocene (Deutsches Museum)
Exhibitions : COP21 Paris 2015 Photography Exhibition (Paris, France), Gallery TABIRA ‘‘Sisyphus’’ (solo show) (Yakushima, Japan)

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2016 

Awards : PX3 Paris Photography Prize (Nature Earth 1st Place Winner)
Exhibitions : The Large Cities Climate Leadership Group Photography Exhibition (Mexico) Published : Annual PX3 Book (PX3)

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2017 

Published : The Climate Smart Evolution (Lucie Foundation)

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2019 

Exhibitions : Ragusa Foto Festival (Ragusa, Italy), Climate Smart Evolution for 2019 Scuderia Art Night (Italy), Cambodian Children's Photography Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)

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2020 

Books : Fallen Trees: Yakushima – Standing in an In-Between Time (TOSEI-SHA Publishing Co., Ltd.)

Awards : Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Highly Commended)

Exhibitions : Natural History Museum (London)