Photographer Otani Shinji's exhibition "The Country of the Rising Sun" will be held at Gallery 916 from December 6th to 28th.
The exhibition features over 50 carefully selected works from his debut series, "The Country of the Rising Sun," which was shot over three seasons in the Stockholm suburbs.
Otani was born in Shiga Prefecture in 1972 and currently lives in Amsterdam. He worked as a ceramic artist in Japan before moving to the Netherlands. He graduated from the photography department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2007. He has received awards such as the Epson Art Photo Award (Germany), the Steenbergen Stipendium (Netherlands), and the Raymond Weil Photo Award (Switzerland), and in 2012 he won the Grand Prix at the inaugural Unseen Dummy Award (Netherlands).


【Event Information】
Otani Shinji "The Country of the Rising Sun" Exhibition
Venue: Gallery 916
Address: Suzue 3rd Building 6F, 1-14-24 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Dates: December 6th to 28th
Hours: 11:00 to 20:00 (until 18:30 on Saturdays and holidays)
Closed: Sundays and Mondays (except holidays)
Admission Fee: Adults 800 yen, Students 500 yen