was a Japanese photographer and film director. He died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 85.Director Motohashi, known for documenting villagers after Chernobyl, dies at 85
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 (Shogakukan) A Thousand Year Song of Baobab (Heibonsha) Performance East and West (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
Sources 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 Polepoletimes Co., Ltd.