Seen: Keizo Motoda's Sunpack
Where: 3rd District Gallery, Shinjuku
When: December 9 - 21, 2014
Earlier I’ve referred to Motoda as one of Tokyo’s Street Kings- (other royalty include Shinya Arimoto, Michio Yamaguchi, Shinji Abe, and Haruto Hoshi)- he’s out there keeping the streets of Tokyo lit. This summer I ran into him in Harajuku shooting his Leica- a shift from his usual 6x7 (Pentax or Makina W) or even his Widelux F7. There’s a difference in footwork, I think. Sunpack, titled after his Sunpack flash, features his usual rock and roll cast and locations- leather jackets, chains, tricked out motorcycles and old school cars. He does his thing, his streets and pictures are authentically his. You can see more on his site: motodakeizo.com
What else-
He has at least six publications out- you can see five of them in the last picture of this set. He has two photobooks just on chrome car details.
He rides a ‘71 Triumph Bonneville T 120R.
He’s been exhibiting photographs since 1996.
He won the Sun Award for his series On The Street, Osaka - that’s the prize Araki won in the 1960’s. You can see the two of them at the award ceremony on his About Page.
You can see all of Motoda’s previous appearances on Tokyo Camera Style here.