Shintaro Yoshikawa (Shintarrow)
Working across art, communication, healthcare and organizations.
Photographer · Filmmaker · Radio Producer · Advisor · Social Artist
Statement
Logic that values efficiency. Sensibility that knows the worth of silence.
The noise of the city, the stillness of an island.
Fieldwork, and strategy.
Standing between fields that seem to oppose each other,
certain connections become visible — connections that disappear when each is handled alone.
In business, that perspective becomes strategy.
In healthcare, a sense for people and the realities of care.
In what is hard to see, it becomes expression.
Giving form to value that is not yet visible.
Shintarrow YoshikawaShintaro Yoshikawa · 吉川 慎太郎
Photography/Exhibitions/Essays
Photographic series, exhibitions, Sense of Place and writing.
PhotographySix practices · One perspective
Photography, film, radio, healthcare communication, organizational advisory and social projects are not separate careers. They are different entry points into the same question: where does something essential about people and society quietly appear — and how can it reach others?
Series · Portrait · Documentary
Long-term series on rescue cats, island life and places. A trilogy of exhibitions at Kyodo News headquarters, Tokyo.
Strategy · Creative Direction
More than 20 years of communications work with general and university hospitals. Advisor to Aijinkai.
Producer · Director
Producing and directing programmes for OBC Radio Osaka since 2017, with more than 450 guests.
Aerial Cinematography
Promotional films for MIZUNO, Hankyu Umeda Square and Toho Leo. JUIDA-certified drone operator.
Organizations · MBA
An MBA and a Healthcare MBA. Advisory and executive roles in healthcare, media and web companies.
Projects · Places
Haikaraya studio on Shodoshima. A charity concert at Hanoi Cathedral. Work with rescue cats and families.
Work
Long-term photographic series and films for exhibitions, places and social projects — the core of the practice.
In brief
A trilogy · Kyodo News, Tokyo
The gaze of rescued cats, the time of people crossing Shodoshima, and the landscapes and memories of places around the world. A trilogy that has looked, through different subjects, at the relationships and presence that dwell in a place.
All exhibitionsSense of Place
Calling up the sense of a place.
Not a cat only as a cat. Not a person only as a figure. Not a landscape only as a backdrop. What the camera follows is what forms between a subject and its place — relation, time, memory, presence. That is what Shintarrow calls Sense of Place.
Life / GazePeople / TimeLandscape / Memory
The trilogy
Places
From an island in the Seto Inland Sea to Tokyo, Budapest and Hanoi, the work moves between places — and between the people who live in them. The subject changes; the attention does not.
ExhibitionsPress & recognition
Separately, featured in 365 ART+ — №43 “CATS” (2023) and №66 “People Creating 21st Century”, the Lavinia de Rothschild issue (2024)
Profile
Photographer · Filmmaker · Radio Producer · Advisor · Social Artist
“Alongside those who keep moving forward, even with something unresolved.”
Photography, film, radio, healthcare communication and organizational advisory are not separate careers for him, but one way of seeing — applied wherever people, places and organizations need to be understood and carried to others.
MBA — Kwansei Gakuin University
Healthcare MBA — NUCB Business School
Aijinkai — Organizational Advisor · Communications Advisor
Academy Sharing Co., Ltd. — Executive Officer · Head of Photography & Video Production
Communext Co., Ltd. — Advisor
Greeting Energy — Co-Representative Director
Haikaraya · High Color Studio · Shodoshima
Simply sit, and watch time gather. Simply rest in the air of this place. Even if tomorrow we return to the world of meaning.
Work together
Photography and film, exhibitions, talks and lectures, communications for healthcare and organizations, joint projects. You are welcome to get in touch while an idea is still taking shape.
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