Biography

Seto was born in Udon Thani

Udon Thani

Udon Thani is a city in Isan, north-east Thailand, and the capital of Udon Thani Province.-Location:The province of Udon Thani has a population of 1,467.200, the city alone 500.000. Geographical location and is approximately 560 km from Bangkok...

, Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

, to a Japanese father and a Vietnamese Thai mother. He moved to Fukushima Prefecture

Fukushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Fukushima prefecture was known as Mutsu Province....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 in 1961, and studied photography at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō , graduating in 1973. After further study under Daidō Moriyama

Daido Moriyama

is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.- Life and career :Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe...

, Seto became an assistant to Masahisa Fukase

Masahisa Fukase

, born 25 February 1934 in Hokkaidō, is a Japanese photographer.-Life:Among Fukase's early works was the "Kill the Pigs" concerning a slaughterhouse...

 in 1978. In 1981 he became a freelance.

Seto has worked on various photographic projects. The best known may be Living Room, an exhibition and then a book of a strip of single and group portraits of Japanese and foreign residents of Tokyo in their homes. This won the Kimura Ihei Award

Kimura Ihei Award

The is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.The award has been given every year since 1975 by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura...

.

Seto in 2008 had his first solo show of photographs in his native country of Thailand. The exhibition featured his first two series of color photographs "Picnic" and "Binran." The show was put together by curator Connelly La Mar

Connelly La Mar

Connelly La Mar is a photographer, curator and contemporary artist. Some of his series of images deal with social issues and the context of subcultures including "Colloquial" and "Just Like Paradise."-Work and Life:...

 with support from the Japan Foundation

Japan Foundation

The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry of Japan on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent...

in February http://www.jfbkk.or.th/event/binran_eg.html at H Gallery.

Yancey Richardson Gallery [www.yanceyrichardson.com] in New York City now represents his work for the U.S. market.

Books by Seto

• Bankoku, Hanoi 1982–1987 . ICP, 1989. ISBN 4-87198-784-1. Photograph collection.
• Heya / Living Room Tokyo. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1996. ISBN 4-10-413101-6. Photograph collection.
• Silent Mode. Tokyo: Mole, 1996. Photograph collection.
• Tooi to Masato . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1998. ISBN 4-02-257265-5. New edition as Ajia kazoku monagatari . Tokyo: Kadokawa, 2002. ISBN 4-04-367601-8. Essay collection.
• Picnic. Place M, 2005. ISBN 4-901477-21-8.

External links

Seto's site