Shisei Kuwabara

Shisei Kuwabara (桑原 史成, Kuwabara Shisei, born 7 October 1936) is a photojournalist best known for his depiction of the effects of mercury poisoning on people in and near Minamata over a period of some forty years.

In the same year Kuwabara started work as a freelance photographer.

With a letter of introduction from a journalist with Shūkan Asahi magazine, he visited the director of Minamata Municipal Hospital, Dr Noboru Ōhashi, in July, to ask for permission to photograph.

This won the newcomers' award of the Japan Photo Critics Association.

[4] Since 1997, Tsuwano has had a gallery largely devoted to Kuwabara's work.