About Hiroh Kikai
Hiroh Kikai was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India and Turkey. He pursued each of these for over two decades, and each led to one or more book-length collections. It was during this time that he took his first photographs to be published, in the May 1973 issue of Camera Mainichi. In 1973 he won a prize for his submission to the 14th exhibition of the Japan Advertising Photographers' Association. He became a freelance photographer in 1984, a year after his first solo exhibition and the same year as his second. Published in 1987, Ōtachi no shōzō / Ecce Homo was the first collection of these portraits.
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