Motohiro Takeda (Brooklyn, NY) received his BFA in photography from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, in 2008. Motohiro was awarded the Tierney Fellowship Grant in 2008 and an honorable mention for the InFocus Sidney Zuber photography award from the Phoenix Art Museum. He was an artist in residence at the Woodstock Center for Photography, NY, in 2015. His work has been exhibited in various venues including Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam; Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Camera Club of New York; Houston Center for Photography; Espana Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid; New York Photo Festival; PhotoLondon; and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco.