Shintaro Sato was born in Tokyo in 1969. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1992 and from Waseda University in 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he was a staff photographer for Kyodo News.
Sato photographs Tokyo and other Japanese cities. His series include Night Lights, Tokyo Twilight Zone, Risen in the East, The Origin of Tokyo and Boundaries. In 2012 he received the Tadahiko Hayashi Award for Risen in the East.
His book City Portraits (Fugensha, 2025) gathers eight series made between 1990 and 2025. It has 220 pages and an essay by Osamu Ueno. Sato adds his own commentary to each series.
