Eiji Ohashi is a Japanese photographer. He was born in Hokkaido in 1955. He has a master's degree in fine arts from Kyoto University of the Arts.
Since 2008 he has photographed the series Roadside Lights. It shows lone vending machines glowing in the snowy nights of Hokkaido. The series began when he got lost in a blizzard and found his way by the light of a vending machine. He shoots the machines with exposures of 5 to 10 minutes.
His books include Roadside Lights (Zen Foto Gallery, 2017), Being There (Case Publishing, 2017) and Roadside Lights 2020-2025 (Case Publishing, 2025, 112 pages). In 2018 he received the Higashikawa International Photo Festival Special Photographer Prize. His work is in the collections of the Sapporo Art Museum and the Higashikawa Culture Gallery.
