Shin Noguchi (born 1976) is a Japanese street photographer, based in Kamakura and Tokyo. His work has been included in two books on street photography and he was 1st Prize Winner at Festival de Photo MAP Toulouse 2014.
Life and work
Noguchi was born in 1976 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, and he has lived in Kamakura for 20 years.
He has been featured on The Leica Camera Blog, in Courrier International, Internazionale, Libération, Tages-Anzeiger, The Independent, and The Guardian. Some assignment work has also been published in Die Zeit, Die Zeit Wissen, and Libération.
Awards
2012: Finalist, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2012
2013: Finalist, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2013
2014: 1st Prize Winner, Prix Talents Festival de Photo MAP Toulouse 2014
2016: 4th Prize, "National Awards, Japan" category, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, World Photography Organisation 2018: Finalist, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2018
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2014: Something Here, MAP Toulouse 2014, France
2016: Something Here, Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
Group exhibitions
2016: Simply, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2016: Sony World Photography Awards 2016 Exhibition, World Photography Organisation, Ginza Place, Ginza, Tokyo 2017: Photography on a Postcard, ThePrintSpace, Shoreditch, London 2019: Leica Street Photography Festival Exhibition, produced by Leica Camera China, Shanghai, China 2019: 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Publications
Publications by Noguchi
Hawaii. Self-published, Blurb, 2017. In Color In Japan. Eyeshot, 2020.
Publications with contributions by Noguchi
The Street Photographer's Manual. By David Gibson. Thames & Hudson, 2014. . 100 Great Street Photographs. By David Gibson. Prestel, 2017. .