Hiroshi Yamazaki

was a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea.

Born in Nagano on 21 September 1946, Yamazaki studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film.

Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" (Suiheisen saishū) is a study of sea horizons.

Yamazaki became a full professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design in 1993, and TPO Photo School.

He died on 5 June 2017 of cancer of the gums.

Solo exhibitions by Yamazaki "Observation". Galleria Grafica (Tokyo), 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979. Exhibition of 16mm work. Underground Cinématheque (Tokyo), 1976. Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), 2005. "Ugoku shashin! Tomaru Eiga!!". Creation Gallery G8, Guardian Garden (Tokyo), 2009.

Publications by Yamazaki Books by Yamazaki Heliography. Tokyo: Seikyūsha 1983. Text in both Japanese and English. Suiheisen saishū: Yamazaki Hiroshi shashinshū / Horizon. Tokyo: Rikuyōsha, 1984. Hiroshi Yamazaki: Critical landscape. Tokyo: Hillside Gallery, 1990.

Other books with work by Yamazaki Shashin toshi Tōkyō / Tokyo / City of Photos. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1995. (Other photographers whose work appears are Takanobu Hayashi, Hiroh Kikai, Ryūji Miyamoto, Daidō Moriyama, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Mitsugu Ōnishi, Masato Seto, Issei Suda, Akihide Tamura, and Tokuko Ushioda.) Captions and texts in both Japanese and English. Stack, Trudy Wilner, ed. Sea change: The seascape in contemporary photography. Tucson, Ariz.: Center for Creative Photography, 1999.

Publications about Yamazaki Yamazaki Hiroshi, "Ugoku shashin! Tomaru eiga!!" . Time Tunnel series, vol. 28. Tokyo: Guardian Garden, 2009.