Jun Abe
Life and work. Abe was born in Osaka. He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka). From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha (), a butoh dance group based in Kyoto. In this capacity he travelled extensively in 1982 and 1983. From 2002 Abe has taught at the Visual Arts Osaka college. He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006. Since 2013 he has been represented by Hatten Gallery.