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Toshio Shibata is of one of Japan's most revered photographers.

Born in Japan in 1949, Toshio Shibata entered the painting department of the University of Arts of Tokyo in 1968. He later decided to continue his studies in Europe at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gant (Belgium) where he turned to photography. He created Quintessence of Japan in 1983, an opus in which human infrastructures take root in nature.
In 1992, he received the Kimura Ihei award. Three years later, he was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Chicago to photograph the United States and it is during …