Shintaro Sato 佐藤信太郎

Shintaro Sato is a Japanese photographer born in Tokyo in 1969. He graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1992 and from Waseda University's School of Literature 1 in 1995, after which he worked as a staff photographer for Kyodo News until 2001.

Since 2002 he has worked as a freelance photographer, creating long-term projects focused on urban landscapes, memory, and the visual character of cities.

Sato’s work explores multiple ways of seeing cities, from formal documentary images to abstract recombinations of space and depth. His major series include Night Lights, Tokyo Twilight Zone, Risen in the East, The Origin of Tokyo, and Boundaries, many of which have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Japan, Korea, the United States, and Europe.

He has received the Tadahiko Hayashi Award and the Japan Photographic Society Newcomer’s Award, and his work is known for its disciplined attention to form, structure, and the layered atmosphere of urban life.

Sato’s new photobook City Portraits gathers eight series spanning more than three decades of his practice, offering a deep look at how a methodical eye can reveal unseen patterns in familiar places. (Website, Instagram, X.com)