Tadashi Ono

Tadashi Ono joined the ENSP teaching team in 2017, after having directed the “Photography-Video” section at the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Japan from 2011 to 2017.
Born in Tokyo, following studies in ecology and botany (Master’s degree in agronomy) at Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan, he graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 1991.
Since then, he has been developing a photographic work that aims to question modern civilization through the careful observation of the urban and natural environment and its history. Since 2011, he has been working in particular on the transformation of the landscape of Tohoku, the north-eastern region of Japan, devastated by the tsunami, as well as on the representation of public space after the political event in 2013 at the Gezi Park in Istanbul. From 2017 onwards, he is developing the project that seeks to represent the landscape of coastal reconstruction in Tohoku, where various issues of environment, architecture, social history and photographic representation intersect. His photographic works are exhibited notably at the Museum of Modern Art – Tokyo (2006), at the Rencontres d’Arles (2012), at the Kyotographie Festival (2018). and at the Villa Noailles, Hyères (2019).
In addition to his work as an artist, he participated as guest curator in “Photoquai 2009”, the biennial exhibition of images of the world at the Musée du Quai Branly, and in 2012, he was nominator-curator of the Prix Découverte at the 43rd Rencontres d’Arles.
He is a laureate (duo project with Julien Guinand) and artist-in-residence at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2017.