1966年ニューヨーク州生まれ。生後11ヶ月の時、現地でかかった流行性耳下線炎が原因で聴覚障害となる（大阪帰国後、3才時に判明）。無数の写真や絵カードなどに触れながら、言語を獲得する。高校の時、登山と共に写真を撮り始める。大学で物理とランドスケープデザインを学ぶ。

東京都杉並区在住。

 

2014年、渡部さとる氏主宰「ワークショップ2B」を受講。

2016年より「カロタイプ フォトワークス」にて写真制作活動中。

2018年、個展「指先の羅針盤」銀座・大阪ニコンサロン。

 

YO Chibazakura was born in the State of New York in 1966. While he was in the States, he got mumps when he was an eleven-month-old baby. As a result of this illness he stared to have difficulties in hearing. This disability was recognized when he came back to Osaka when he was three years old.He had acquired the language through his exposure to innumerable photographs and picture cards. He started climbing mountains and taking pictures when he was a senior high school student. He studied physics and landscape design at university.

Now he lives in Suginami Ward in Tokyo.

 

2014 Joined in the “Workshop 2B” directed by Satoru Watanabe

2016 Started producing photographic works at the “Calotype Photo Works”

2018 Solo exhibition “Wander in the Silence” Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka)