Eiji Ohashi

It was while climbing the Himalayas in his late twenties that mountaineering enthusiast Eiji Ohashi discovered photography. Born in Hokkaido Prefecture in 1955, Eiji worked until the age of 54 as an employee selling insurance for the Japanese Post Office. But his passion for photography already drove him to travel to Tibet, and other parts of western China, Nepal, and Pakistan. As an amateur photographer, he has published two books: Silkroad in 2003 and Nirvana in 2006.

It wasn't until 2010 that he decided to become a full-time photographer. Since then, his main subject has been vending machines. “The reason I take a picture of a vending machine is because it gives us hope and inspiration when we see bright things in the middle of a dark night.”

Eiji Ohashi published in 2017 THANKS , Being There And Roadside Lights . The latter was awarded the prestigious Higashikawa Prize in 2018.