牛丸 維人 / MASATO USHIMARU
写真家、デザイン実践者 / Photographer, Design doer
映像人類学、写真論、ビジネスディベロップメント、デザインを越境する多面的なバックグラウンドを持つ. 言語と非言語を横断する多感覚でダイナミックな質的リサーチとデザイン実践、制作活動を展開する. Aarhus University（Denmark）映像人類学修士(MSc in Visual Anthropology). カルチャーデザインファーム KESIKI ディレクター. インディペンデントマガジン Polaris フォトグラファー.
フィリピン北部・ベンゲット地域を映像人類学的実践のフィールドとする. 2022年には長期間のエスのグラフィックリサーチを実施し、同地域における視覚障害当事者のケア実践と社会運動に焦点を当てたエスノグラフィ執筆と民族誌映像制作を経験. 民族誌映画 "Our Co-Blind - An Ethnography of Care among Visually Impaired Communities in Baguio" は米国・英国およびスペインで受賞・上映され、日本・デンマーク・フィリピンでは映像・写真作品の展示を実施. そのほか、デンマークでの2年間の研究生活をオートエスノグラフィ的に記録した写真集 "FOG AND SUN", 北フィリピンでのフィールドワークの合間に撮影した作品による個展と作品集 "Texture of Highland" などがある.
フィリピン北部・ベンゲット地域を映像人類学的実践のフィールドとする. 2022年には長期間のエスのグラフィックリサーチを実施し、同地域における視覚障害当事者のケア実践と社会運動に焦点を当てたエスノグラフィ執筆と民族誌映像制作を経験. 民族誌映画 "Our Co-Blind - An Ethnography of Care among Visually Impaired Communities in Baguio" は米国・英国およびスペインで受賞・上映され、日本・デンマーク・フィリピンでは映像・写真作品の展示を実施. そのほか、デンマークでの2年間の研究生活をオートエスノグラフィ的に記録した写真集 "FOG AND SUN", 北フィリピンでのフィールドワークの合間に撮影した作品による個展と作品集 "Texture of Highland" などがある.
With a multidisciplinary background that crosses visual anthropology, photography, business development, and design, Masato engages in multisensory and dynamic qualitative research, design practice, and creative production that traverse both verbal and non-verbal modes of expression.
Masato holds an MSc in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University in Denmark. Currently, he works as a director at the culture design firm KESIKI and as a photographer for the independent magazine Polaris.
The northern Philippine region Benguet serves as the primary field site for his visual anthropological practice. In 2022, he conducted extended ethnographic fieldwork focused on the care practices and social movements of visually impaired people in the region, producing both a written ethnography and an ethnographic film. The resulting film, Our Co-Blind – An Ethnography of Care among Visually Impaired Communities in Baguio, was screened and awarded in the U.S., the U.K., Switzerlands and Spain, and exhibited as both film and photographic work in Japan, Denmark, and the Philippines.
Other notable works include FOG AND SUN, a photo book documenting two years of research life in Denmark through an autoethnographic lens, and Texture of Highland, a solo exhibition and photo book featuring images captured between fieldwork sessions in the highlands of northern Luzon.
Degree & Certificate / 学位・資格
Master of Sciences in Anthropology, Specialisation in Visual Anthropology (2023, Aarhus University)
Bachelor of Social Sciences (2018, Hitotsubashi University)
Winter School "Ethnography and Design" (2022, University of Amsterdam)
Filmography / 映像作品
MAN AT BAZAAR (Jan 2022)
Our Co-Blind - An Ethnography of Care among Visually Impaired Communities in Baguio (Jun 2023)
Books / 書籍
FOG AND SUN Edition 01 (Photobook, Apr 2024)
FOG AND SUN Edition 02 (Photobook, Aug 2024)
Texture of Highland (Photobook, Aug 2024)
ao vol.01 (ZINE, May 2024)
OUR CO-BLIND, Artist Edition (Photobook, Jan 2025)
FOG AND SUN Revised Edition (Photobook, Jun 2025)
Award / 受賞
Japan Modern Photographers Association Internet Photography Competition 2022, Awarded (Japan, 2022)
FICIMAD 2024, Best Documentary Sound (Spain, 2024)
ABQ Indie Film Festival 2024, Finalist (USA, 2024)
LIFT-OFF GLOBAL NETWORK FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER SESSION, Online Showcase (UK, 2024)
Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival 2025, Screened & Talk (Switzerlands, 2025)
Exhibition & Screening / 展示・上映
Texture of Highland (Solo Exhibition at NEST COFFEE ROASTER, Baguio City, Philippines. 2022)
Texture of Highland (Solo Exhibition, Aarhus, Denmark. 2022)
Our Co-Blind Public Screening & Talk (School of Arts and Communication, University of the Philippines Baguio. 2024)
Texture of Highland (Solo Exhibition, at ART READING, Shizuoka, Japan. 2024)
OUR CO-BLIND (Polaris Group Exhibition at 海と本, Kamakura, Japan. 2024)
FOG AND SUN (Solo Exhibition at MONO GRAPHY, Tokyo, Japan. 2025)
FOG AND SUN (Solo Exhibition at GRAMINE, Shizuoka, Japan. Jun 2025)
掛川詩 (Co-Exhibition at HiBARI BOOKS, Shizuoka, Japan. Jun 2025)
西荻詩 (Co-Exhibition at Bar Vinga, Tokyo, Japan. Jun 2025)
OUR CO-BLIND (Solo Exhibition & Screening at 栞日 sioribi, Nagano, Japan. Jul-Aug 2025)
Talk / 登壇
Guest Lecture and Workshop on Documentary Photography (School of Arts and Communication, University of the Philippines Baguio. 2024)