Takashi Homma

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Takashi Homma (b.1962) is a Japanese photographer born and based in Tokyo. He studied photography at Nihon University College of Art, and left in 1984 to take a job as an in-house photographer at a Tokyo advertising agency. In 1991 he moved to London for two years to work as a photographer for i-D Magazine.

Homma’s work examines the nuances of Tokyo’s suburban districts, its urban centre, its surrounding landscapes, and its people. Homma's pictures tell a tender and discreet story of Tokyo discourse. He observes and documents sterile contemporary architecture, well-groomed highways, hidden rooftop gardens, desolate chain restaurants, quiet car parks, stray teenagers, children at play, objects in a home, snow-capped mountains and hypnotic seas.

Homma has published myriad books throughout his career. In 1999 he was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for his project, ‘Tokyo Suburbia’ (1998), his formative work now considered a classic.
 

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BOOKS

2025
Portrait of J

Published by Dashwood Books

2024
17

Published by Dashwood Books

2024
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

Published by Mack Books

2021
Tokyo and My Daughter (The complete edition)

Published by Nieves

2019
TRAILS

Published by Mack Books

2019
Symphony - mushrooms from the forest

Published by Case Publishing

2016
The Narcissistic City

Published by Mack Books

2014
Tanoshii Shashin 3 [Fun Photography]

Published by Heibonsha

2014
New Documentary

Published by SUPER LABO

2013
New Waves 2000-2013

Published by 1223 Gendaikaiga

2012
mushrooms from the forest

Published by Blind Gallery

2010
Nursey

Published by Nieves

2009
Tanoshii Shashin [Fun Photography]

Published by Heibonsha

2009
trails

Published by Match and Company

2008
Takashi Homma: Tokyo

Published by Aperture Foundation

2009
35 Years Later

Published by The Thunderstorm Press

2007
Architectural Landscapes

Published by Gallery White Room Tokyo

2007
New Waves

Published by Parco Publishing

2006
Tokyo and My Daughter

Published by Nieves

2004
kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes]

Published by Little More

2001
New Tokyo Standard

Published by Rockin'On

2001
Tokyo Children

Published by Little More

1997
Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes

Published by Switch Publishing

1997
Tokyo Suburbia

Published by Korinsha Press

1996
Sleep

Published by Little More

1996
Tokyo Teens

Published by Little More

1995
Babyland

Published by Little More

EXHIBITIONS

2023 - 2024
Takashi Homma: REVOLUTION No. 9 Camera Obscura Studies

Nonaka-Hill, LA

2023
REVOLTUION No.9: Homma Takashi

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2023
The Lives of Documents - Photography as Project

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Canada

2022
The Art of Mushrooms

Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal

2022
Self 07

A Project curated by Saint Laurent and Magnum Photos

2021
New Mushrooms from the forest

TARO NASU, Tokyo

2021
Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier

CCA, Tokyo

2018
Fugaku 11/36 -Thirty six views of mount fuji

TARO NASU, Tokyo

2017
NEW WAVES

Post, Tokyo

2016
VARIOUS SHAPED HOSES AND SNAKE

Post, Tokyo

2015
TAKASHI HOMMA

CIFAKA, Okayama

2015
THIRTYFOUR PARKING LOTS & SCANDINAVIAN MUSHROOM

Post, Tokyo

2015
VARIOUS COVERED AUTOMOBILES AND SHOW

Post, Tokyo

2014
TOWARDS THE CITY - camera obscura study

TARO NASU, Tokyo

2014
NINE SWIMMING POOLS AND A BROKEN I PHONE

Post, Tokyo

2013
Reality

Gallery G, Hiroshima

2013
Pinhole Revolution / Architecture

TARO NASU, Tokyo

2013
New Waves

Longhouse Projects, New York

2012
mushrooms from the forest

Blind Gallery, Tokyo

2011-2012
New Documentary

Three Museums, Japan

2010
Vedove/Windows

Antico Castello sul Mare, Rapallo, Italy

2010
New Waves

1223 Gendaikaiga - Contemporary Painting Museum, Tokyo

2009
Trails

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2008
I don't Go to Grandes Jorasses

limArt, Tokyo

2008
Tokyo

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2007
Tokyo/Reykjavik

101 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2007
New Waves

Logos Gallery, Tokyo

2007
Architectural Landscapes

Gallery White Room, Tokyo

2007
New Waves

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2006
Tokyo and My Daughter

Galerie Claudia Delank, Cologne, Germany

2006
Torahiko-Mountains

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2005
New Waves

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2004
Short Hope

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2004
Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes]

NADiff, Tokyo

2003
Waves

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2002
Tokyo Children

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2001
Works in Progress

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2000
Tokyo Willie's

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2000
Aero Photo

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2000
Tokyo Suburbia

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2000
Homma Camera

MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1999
Takashi Homma

Gallery The Deep, Tokyo

1999
Tokyo Suburbia

Parco Gallery, Nagoya

1999
Takashi Homma: Suburban Portrait

Epson Imaging Gallery EpSite, Tokyo

1999
Takashi Homma: Tokyo Suburbia

Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Minolta Photo Space in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai

1998
Tokyo Suburbia

Parco Gallery, Tokyo

1998
Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes

Gallery 360°, Tokyo

1996
Sleep

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

1995
Babyland

Parco Gallery, Tokyo

1995
Tokyo Teens

Homma Takashi Photo Office, Tokyo

FILMS

2020
Architecture, Time and Kazuyo Sejima

Released at Eurospace

2019
Ayacucho no Uta to Chichibu no Yama [Ayacucho song and mountains in Chichibu]

Released at UPLINK Kichijoji and Shibuya

2015
First, Jay Comes

Released at The Yebisu International Festival

2004
Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes]

Produced and distributed by Little More, Tokyo; Slow Learner, Tokyo
 

1999
A Wonder Flying Saucer / Fake or Love? 2

Suburban Landscapes Films, four short films, 10 minutes each. Produced and distributed by Little More, Tokyo

1998
How to Jiu-jitsu

Suburban Landscapes Films, four short films, 10 minutes each. Produced and distributed by Little More, Tokyo

1998
A New Home Town

Suburban Landscapes Films, four short films, 10 minutes each. Produced and distributed by Little More, Tokyo

1998
A Wonder Flying Saucer / Fake or Love?

Suburban Landscapes Films, four short films, 10 minutes each. Produced and distributed by Little More, Tokyo

Takashi Homma News

02.10.25

Jil Sander SS26, Photographed by Takashi Homma

20.09.25

'Portrait of J' by Takashi Homma, published by Dashwood Books

12.09.25

The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home, Featuring Nigel Shafran & Takashi Homma

11.09.25

Takashi Homma Photographs for Sevali

23.07.25

W Magazine ‘Wanderlust’ feature, by Takashi Homma Photographed in Jeju island, Korea

27.06.25

Takashi Homma Photographs for Space Magazine