Masao Gozu

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1946, Gozu attended Toyo Institute of Art and Design (Tōyō Bijutsu Senmon Gakkō) until 1970.

The next year he moved to New York, where he studied, graduating in 1973 from Brooklyn Museum Art School.

In December 1990, he won Le prix special du jury, Mois de la photo 90, Paris.

While Gozu continues to show his photography in Japan, Europe and the United States, since 1984 he has also been reconstructing windows from old buildings.

Each of the five images represented a component of the Go Dai (a Buddhist concept of the five elements that shape the physical world).