大木 茂（Shigeru Ohki） - 写真家

大木 茂（おおき しげる、1947年–）は、鉄道と旅を軸に、雑誌・書籍の写真や映画のスティル写真を手がけてきた写真家。東京都世田谷区に生まれ、1972年に早稲田大学理工学部を卒業した。写真は独学で学び、高校・大学時代には全国の蒸気機関車を追って撮影旅行を重ねた。旅先の風景や見知らぬ人々との出会いをきっかけに写真を職業とし、一般週刊誌・月刊誌の写真ページ、鉄道・自動車・旅行の専門誌などで仕事を続け、30歳代後半からは映画の撮影現場にも携わった。写真集『汽罐車――よみがえる鉄路の記憶1963–72』では、学生時代に撮影した蒸気機関車と沿線の情景をまとめた。『ぶらりユーラシア――列車を乗り継ぎ大陸横断、72歳ひとり旅』は、72歳で約3か月をかけて17か国・約2万キロを旅した記録で、列車だけでなく、土地の食事や暮らし、人々の表情を約1000枚の写真と文章でたどった。『ディスカバード・ジャパン――鉄道沿線に見るこの国の姿、今昔』では、2016年から2025年にかけてかつての撮影地を訪ね直し、北海道から鹿児島までの鉄道沿線の新旧写真を対比して、半世紀の景観と社会の変化を記録した。

Shigeru Ohki (born 1947) is a Japanese photographer whose work encompasses railways, travel, magazine and book photography, and film stills. Born in Setagaya, Tokyo, he graduated from Waseda University’s School of Science and Engineering in 1972. A self-taught photographer, he travelled throughout Japan to photograph steam locomotives during his high school and university years. Encounters with unfamiliar places and people led him to make photography his profession. He worked for general interest weeklies and monthlies as well as railway, motoring, and travel publications, and began taking film stills in his late thirties. His photographic collection “Kikansha: Yomigaeru Tetsuro no Kioku 1963–72” brought together steam locomotives and railway landscapes he had photographed as a student. In “Burari Eurasia,” he documented a solo journey undertaken at seventy-two, crossing seventeen countries and roughly twenty thousand kilometres in about three months. Around a thousand photographs and accompanying text recorded local food, daily life, and the people he encountered alongside the trains. For “Discovered Japan,” he returned to earlier photographic locations between 2016 and 2025, pairing old and new views along railway lines from Hokkaido to Kagoshima to document changes in landscapes and society over half a century.