“It is not that I love Hokkaido, but rather that Hokkaido is my “love” that will probably never change for the rest of my life.”
― From Memories of a Dog

Daido Moriyama, who had worked as a commercial designer and then as an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, made his debut as a freelance photographer in 1963. The coarse-grained, high-contrast expressions that were published mainly in camera magazines and other media were described as “Are, Bure, Boke” and had a major impact on the Japanese photographic world of the time. His first major work, Japan, a Photo Theater (1968), and the controversial Bye Bye Photography (1972), which radically explored the nature of photography, are still considered among the greatest photo books in the history of Japanese photography. Moriyama’s stay in Sapporo in the early summer of 1978 was planned by him in an attempt to somehow escape the state of “detachment from photography” that he had experienced since Bye Bye Photography. There was a sentiment for the vast collection of records and photographs left behind by northern photographers such as Kenzo Tamoto during the early days of Hokkaido’s development.
― From Memories of a Dog : The Final Chapter

Daido Moriyama’s Hokkaido is set to release after more than 30 years. This exhibition features approximately 100 black-and-white works selected from the works exhibited at the “Hokkaido” exhibitions held in various locations in Hokkaido from 2009 to 2011.

This exhibition will explore the core of the appeal of Hokkaido and Daido World.