biography of innerfocus

Tsutomu Endo Fine Art photography

Japanese art photography

Tsutomu Endo

Born in 1978,Tsutomu Endo found his beginnings as a skater and snowboarder in the winter mountains and abundant nature of Azumino,Japan.Shince the 1990s,he has followed the trends of board culture,leading in the development of his local scene and visiting mountains and communities around the world.his works have been featured in snowboarding magazines and other publications.Over 20 years of activities in the snowboarding world have earned Endo recognition in Japan and internationally.
Attracted to the counterculture movement in the 1990s, he was influenced by the rave scene,hippie culture,and psychedelic experience to become fascinated by the spiritual world.Endo brings his own interpretation to his experiences on his many travels and the way people lives,as well as to concepts such as returning to nature and permaculture that are an extension of his counter culture.From there he expands his themes of expression to “freedom of the mind” and the “great cycles of life in the earth”. From the outset, Endo has defined the concept of his photographs as “inner focus”, and continues his journeys in pursuit of artistic expression and harmony with the splendor and life of this dynamic planet, from his base in Azumino, Japan.

雪の写真家

I was born in an age of material abundance and am the manifestation of a generation that lives freely.Based on the concept that “humans are part of the great life force,Earth,” my works gaze at this planet from a timeless perspective, and record through the fleeting experience of photography the changing global environment and that which is being lost; the resulting ethnic groups and communities of consciousness; and cultures and the relationships with the problems that arise within them, and search for deep psyche through the processes and archiving that accompany artistic creation. My interests span beyond the confined academic expression of intellectual contextualization,which feels somewhat dated in the current era, to include harmonization with fundamental instincts through the five senses - or even the sixth.

-Tsutomu Endo

■EXHIBITION

Solo

2024 “MIAGGOORTOQ” Fuji film Photo salon. Tokyo JP
2023 “MIAGGOORTOQ” Gallery AL. Tokyo JP
2019 “Tsutomu Endo” Symposium Hakuba / Wing 21 culture hall.Nagano JP
2018 “The northern limit : Living in the present” / Fiji film Photo salon. Tokyo JP
2018-2019 Tsutomu Endo / 82 Bank street gallery / Nagano JP
2016 "inner peace" ASAKURA Gallery. Omachi JP
2016 "inner peace" Creative space Hayashi. Kanagawa JP
2016 "Art of snow players" Gallery AL. Tokyo JP
2015 “MIZUNOKIOKU” (Memory of water) Fuji Film Gallery.Tokyo JP
2012 "Snow meditation" Fire king cafe .Tokyo JP
2011 “YUKIIRO” snow colors / Gallery “IIZURA”Nagano JP
2011 “MANATSUNOYUKI” (Snow in Summer) Hakuba JP
2011 “ユキノヌクモリ" Hakuba JP
2008 "Love it” Cajon Ishikawa JP
2008 "Love it” Bamboo cafe Hakuba JP

Group

2024 Photographic Society of Japan Awards “MIAGGOORTOQ” Tokyo JP
2020 星の肖像 / The Chain Museum / NEWoMan . Yokohama JP
2018 MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL / Hakuba JP
2017 INDIVIDUAL ACT / Gallery “IIZURA”.Omachi JP
2017 Boarders Photo Jurnal / Wag gallery .Tokyo JP
2016 New-Nature Photo Festival / KAWABA . Gunma JP
2016 Snow meditation / INA cultural hall .Nagano JP
2015 FUJI FILM EXHIBITION / Fuji Film.Tokyo JP
2015 FUJI FILM EXHIBITION / CP＋ .Tokyo JP
2011 SHIBUYA STYLE / SEIBU SOGO.Tokyo JP
2011 EXHIBITION/MANLY.Australia
2009 SNOW CREATION / Kyoto JP
2007 Live Naturaly / Ibaragi and Kyoto JP
2007 FOCUS ALL / Tokyo JP　　　　　　　　　

■SLIDE SHOW

2023 POLAR EXPOSURE / Patagonia Kyoto, Fukuoka, Karuizawa JP
2018 雪の民族と100年先を考える / Patagonia / Hakuba JP
2018 Tsutomu Endo with 350 / Patagonia /Tokyo JP
2017 Snow festival in Nabekura kogen / Nagano JP
2017 “Live positive” Tsutomu Endo×Yone film / Hakuba JP
2016 横ノリ文化交流会　Tsutomu Endo×Kiichi Sugai / Tokyo JP
2016 Hokuriku Riders meeting　Tsutomu Endo×Yuu Nishiyama / Ishikawa JP
2016 ALPS BOOK CAMP 2016 / Omachi JP
2016 Cross talk with Kasetsu 華雪 / B&B/Tokyo JP
2016 Slide photo show and Guiter session・Tsutomu Endo×Katsuhiko Sato / AL Tokyo/Tokyo JP
2016 Crosstalk with・Humihiro Hoshino 星野文絋 / HMV Shibuya.Tokyo JP
2016 Back to the roots / Mocking bird .Hakuba JP
2015 横ノリ文化交流会 / Shizuoka JP
2015 Pastime / Osaka JP
2015 FUJI FILM / CP＋/Tokyo JP
2013 THE BROTHER HOOD / OLIMPIA/ U.S.A.
2013 TENJIN BANKED SLALOM / Minakami JP
2013 F-STOP SHOOTING / Hakuba JP
2012 TENJIN BANKED SLALOM / Minakami JP
2012 NORTH WEST TO JAPAN / Shizuoka & Tokyo JP
2012 HOLY BOWLY / Hakauba JP
2012 “MOUNTAIN WAVE” Tsutomu Endo×DJ TICO / Hakuba JP
2009 “SNOW CREATION” Tsutomu Endo×DJ Yuu / Kyoto JP