Hiroji kubota biography for kids

By Takeko Fujisawa

Magnum Photos is the first photographic cooperative owned entirely by its photographers-members founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour and George Roger.

The agency includes around 60 talented and renowned photographers from all over the world.

Amongst them, there are only one full Japanese member : His name is Hiroji Kubota, 78 years old with the energy of a 20-year-old man.

He is the first Japanese to have entered Magnum Photos and he’s still the only one. Even though it’s been 55 years he’s taking photographs, he doesn’t like to be called photojournalist neither photographer. He goes by “pensioner”.

Hiroji started taking photos around 1959.

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He studied in Waseda University, majored in political science and decided to work on a subject on remote places of Japan. Hiroji borrowed his father’s camera and travelled from the far North to far South of Japan. This project was then publish