Yasuhiro Ogawa is a Japanese photographer. He was born in Kanagawa in 1968, earned a B.A. in English literature at Kanagawa University, began photographing in his early twenties and turned professional in 2000. He is based in Tokyo and represented by Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker in Paris and Buchkunst Berlin.
He has published seven photobooks and three zines. They include Slowly Down the River (Creo, 2008), Shimagatari (Sokyusha, 2014), Cascade (Sokyusha, 2017), The Dreaming (Sokyusha, 2020), Tokyo Silence (T&M Projects, 2022), Into the Silence (Blue Lotus Editions and Photo Editions, 2023) and Lost in Kyoto (Photo Editions, 2025, 96 pages, 71 colour photographs). Lost in Kyoto is the result of ten years of visits to Kyoto, some pictures made with a handmade Haruhisa camera. He won the Taiyo Award for his first solo exhibition in 2000 and the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer Award for Slowly Down the River in 2009, and was a finalist for the Oskar Barnack Award (2006) and the Hayashi Tadahiko Award (2015).
