is a Japanese photographer and movie director. Awards 1968: The 5th Taiyousho Award for The Coal Mine 1995: The Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award and the Society of Photography Award for Infinite Embrace 1998: The 17th Domon Ken Award for Nadya’s Village 1998: The 8th Excellent Film Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs for Documentary film Nadya’s Village 2002: The Readers’ Prize of the Berliner Zeitung and the International Cine Club Prize at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary film Alexei and the Spring 2013: The Photographic Society of Japan Award for Slaughterhouse and Ueno Station (revised edition) Exhibitions (selected) 2002: Nadezhda - Hope The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. 2016: Sense of Place The Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka Prefecture. Publications (selected) The Coal Mine (Kaichosha) Circus Time& (Kawade Shobo Shinsha) Ueno Station (Heibonsha) Infinite Embrace (Nishida Shoten) Nadya’s Village (Touseisha) Alexei and the Spring&quot (Shogakukan) A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (Heibonsha) Performance East and West&quot (Office emu) Slaugherhouse (Heibonsha) People on the Seikan Ferryboat (Tsugaru Shobo) Sense of Place (Nohara) Tsukiji Fish Market – A People’s Town (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.) References Nihon shashinka jiten () / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. External links Motohashi Seiichi: Sense of Place | IZU PHOTO MUSEUM J'Lit | Authors : Seiichi Motohashi | Books from Japan Polepoletimes Co., Ltd. Japanese photographers 1940 births Living people Tokyo College of Photography alumni