I create photographs that everyone who sees your message can truly feel.
Art, business, memorials, life journeys, the world — in each of these moments,
I keep pressing the shutter, wishing that the photographs I create will serve you well.
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2025.12.15
Two-Person Exhibition "A・WA・I"
[Kyoto]
Dates: Jan 20 (Tue) – 25 (Sun)
Venue: Dohjidai Gallery of Art
1928 Building 2F, 56 Benkeiishi-cho, Sanjo-dori Gokomachi Higashi-iru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
Hours: 12:00–19:00 (until 17:00 on Jan 25)
[Tokyo]
Dates: Feb 25 (Wed) – Mar 1 (Sun)
Venue: Machida Civic Hall, Gallery 2
2-2-36 Morino, Machida-shi, Tokyo
Hours: 10:00–18:00
Ma no Kokyu (The Breath of Ma)
Including a tour of the hall and a tea gathering
Dates: Jan 24 (Sat) – Feb 1 (Sun)
Venue: Jitsugetsuka Sencha-do Kaikan
27 Momoyama-cho Nabeshima, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
Admission: 300 yen
Reservations required: +81-90-8044-6205
How can your message be conveyed through the world of Bungo Saito?
That is the lifeline that lies within it.
Things that have form
Things that have movement
Things that have stillness
Things that have craft
Things that have gentleness —
I sway with the ripples of every kind of air, and in the messages they reflect, Bungo Saito exists.
Canon
(2023)
Turning my thoughts to the presence of the air: inner landscapes that capture ever-shifting currents of ki.
Kurofuyu (Black Winter)
(2018)
From Noto to Hokkaido: a white world of sky and earth, photographed while travelling north along the winter Sea of Japan.
Longing
(2017)
An early work: moments of longing captured while walking through Europe in the 1970s and 80s.
Otona no Kyujitsu Club Cover Series
(2017)
Portraits of well-known figures that graced the covers of the monthly magazine published by JR East.
BUJI
(2017)
Photographed during a stay at Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine at the foot of Mt. Hiei. Shown in the solo exhibition Muki.
Gen no Kaze (Wind of the Source)
(2017)
Capturing ki as seen with the mind’s eye. The second collection, gathering a new series of Kakokyo.
No matter how I flatter "nature", it never grants my wishes.
So instead, I listen to the wishes of "nature".
I have done so for decades now...
After facing nature for decades,
now and then it strikes a dignified pose, as if offering a reward.
Perhaps that is why I remain a photographer.
NAO
(2017〜)
Beauty dwelling in the finest details of human movement, and the free trajectories seen in the body of dancer NAO.
Tsubaki Grand Shrine
(2015〜)
The sacred rites of Tsubaki Grand Shrine, Ichinomiya of Ise Province, photographed over many years.
Ten-uta Chi-uta
(2016)
The spark of life in the moment cheeks touch: a hymn to life played by encounters.
Seichi no Kaze (Wind of Sacred Places)
(2015)
Standing still where the heart is moved, capturing the instant of becoming one with the wind that flows there.
Kami Kioku (Divine Memory)
(2015)
Photographing the great power that wells up when the presence of nature resonates with memories within.
Kakokyo (Mirror of the Past)
(2013)
Visiting sacred places in Japan and abroad: landscapes of prayer guided by the energy that dwells there.
Genki-yoku (Bathing in Vitality)
(2012〜)
A 100-year-old swimmer. An 80-year-old runner. A proposal for a way of living, conveyed by them.
Chichi Magazine Covers
(2017)
For many years, photographer Bungo Saito has portrayed the true faces of the distinguished people featured on the cover of the monthly magazine Chichi. Please view them in chronological order.
"This one moment" of our lives — we who are kept alive and who live —
is a miracle born of a long, connected trajectory.
And the power to be moved, given to us, gives birth to joy,
nurturing us and helping us evolve.
