Issei Suda

Issei Suda (須田 一政, Suda Issei) (24 April 1940 – 7 March 2019) was a Japanese photographer who "[combined] a pure appreciation of Japanese customs with a sharp investigative eye".

[4] From 1967 to 1971, Suda worked as the cameraman of the theatrical group Tenjō Sajiki, under Shūji Terayama.

[4] His first photobook, Fūshi kaden, was named after a treatise by Zeami Motokiyo; it won a Photographic Society of Japan newcomer's award in 1976.

His fourth, Ningen no kioku, won the Domon Ken Award in 2014.

[1] Suda was a professor at Osaka University of Arts.

Some photobooks by Suda, left to right: Waga-Tōkyō hyaku (1979), Ningen no kioku , Akai hana , Fūshi kaden (JCII Photo Salon library), Min'yō sanga , Kado no tabakoya made no tabi , Fushikaden (2012), Early Works 1970–1975 , Fragments of Calm , Tokyokei , Childhood Days , Fragment of Everyday Life . . . flanked by irrelevant Pelicans