Michael Yamashita
Michael Yamashita (born 1949) is an American photographer known for his work in National Geographic and his multiple books of photographs.
Yamashita was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California, and was raised in Montclair, New Jersey.[1] He graduated from Montclair Academy in 1967.[2] In 1971 he graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Asian studies. He traveled to Japan to teach English as a second language after college. He began working for the National Geographic in 1979 and since then traveled to places as diverse as Somalia, Sudan, England, Ireland, and Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. For the past thirty years he has specialized in Asia, including Japan, China and Tibet.
He is also an author of more than sixteen photographic books, including "Shangri-La [along the tea road to lhasa]", Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer, Japan: The Soul of a Nation, Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey, and many others. Michael has also done two documentaries that went along with his books on Marco Polo and Zheng He. He has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Asian American Journalists Association. He is also a frequent lecturer and conducts photo workshops across Asia and the United States.[3][4] He now works as an ambassador for Sony Cameras and is known as a Sony Shooter. He has amassed over 1.5 million followers on Instagram.
He has been a resident of Chester Township, New Jersey.[5]
References
- ^ "Elusive Paradise: Michael Yamashita’s Shangri-La (along the tea road to Lhasa)", The Explorers Club. Accessed November 10, 2020. "Michael Yamashita was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in suburban New York City."
- ^ "Class Notes", MKA Review, Fall 2019. Accessed November 10, 2020. "Michael Yamashita MA '67, Laurel (Pekar) Tahija KS '67, and Alan Yamashita MA '68 had a mini-reunion at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong, held March 23, 2019."
- ^ "Michael Yamashita". Istanbul Photographers Workshops. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ "Michael Yamashita". The Photo Society. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ Garber, Phil. "After China, Yamashita returns home to Chester Township to help hopeful photographers Chester Township photographer lends skills to Duke Farms", Observer-Tribune, March 20, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2020. "Chester Twp. – Michael Yamashita has photographed some of the most exotic places on earth but he’s coming home to share his photographic excellence at the expansive Duke Farms in Hillsborough."
4. Michael Yamashita (@yamashitaphoto) • Instagram photos and videos. (2013, April 4). Retrieved February 3, 2020
