Hiroshi Watanabe
http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com
Hiroshi Watanabe was born in Sapporo, Japan. He graduated from Department of Photography, College of Art, at Nihon University in 1975. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation and became involved in the production of TV commercials, eventually working as a producer. He later established his own production company and produced numerous commercials. He received an MBA degree from UCLA Business School in 1993. In 1995 his passion for photography rekindled, and since then he has traveled worldwide extensively, photographing what he finds intriguing at that moment and place. In 2000 he closed the production company in order to devote himself entirely to the art and became a full time photographer. His work has been published around the world, and has been exhibited in many galleries across the United States and Japan. Awards 1973 Advertising Photographers Association, Japan 1978 Los Angeles Times 1996 Western Art Directors Club 2000 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles 2000 London Photographic Awards 2001 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles 2002 Print Center 2002 Center for Photographic Art 2002 Photo Review 2003 International Photography Awards 2003 Photo Review 2003 Advertising Photographers of America, Los Angeles 2004 Black & White Spider Awards 2005 Photo Review 2005 Black & White Spider Awards 2006 Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award Collections His work is in the permanent collections of following museums: Philadelphia Museum of Art Santa Monica Pier 2000 Houston Museum of Fine Arts Ellis Island 2, New York 1999 White Terns, Midway Atoll 1999 El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador 2002 Patient ES, Schizophrenia, San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital 2002 Chikako Suga, Matsuo Kabuki 2003 Yuki Nonaka, Matsuo Kabuki 2003 Musume's Head, Ena Bunraku 2004 Yoroboshi, Naito Clan 2004 George Eastman House Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. 1999 Church, San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital 2002 Santa Barbara Museum of Art El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador. 2002 Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. 1999 Edison Pastillo, Ecuador. 2000