竹内 慎 たけうち まこと
群馬県高崎市生まれ
1996年に上京。小道具装飾、映像制作会社などを経て、自主制作映画や演劇制作に携わる。 2000年、ジム・ジャームッシュに憧れニューヨークへ渡航。学生映画やインディーズ映画の制作スタッフとして活動する傍ら、Watoku Ueno氏主宰の Aki-Ology Design Inc. にて舞台美術制作に従事し、Ueno氏のオリジナル演劇やパペットショーにも参加。 同時期に LaGuardia Community College に通学し、商業写真コースで写真を学ぶ。
卒業後は、インテリアを中心とした商業写真家として活動。 長年の海外生活を通じて、自身のルーツである日本文化への関心が深まり、2011年、東日本大震災の年に帰国する。
帰国後は、つくばにて写真家・齋藤さだむ氏の助手を務める。この出会いをきっかけに建築写真への関心を深め、齋藤氏の「表現としての写真」だけでなく、撮影に向き合う姿勢そのものからも大きな影響を受ける。 現在は、全国展開するリゾートホテルの料理・施設撮影をはじめ、建築の竣工写真など、商業撮影を中心に活動している。
Makoto Takeuchi
Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
In 1996, Takeuchi moved to Tokyo, where he worked in prop styling and at video production companies, while also participating in independent film and theater productions. In 2000, inspired by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, he relocated to New York. He worked as a production staff member on student and independent films, and at the same time joined Aki-Ology Design Inc., led by Watoku Ueno, where he was involved in stage set design as well as Ueno’s original theatrical productions and puppet shows. During this period, he studied photography in the Commercial Photography program at LaGuardia Community College.
After graduating, he began working as a commercial photographer, primarily focusing on interior photography. Through many years of living abroad, his interest in his cultural roots and Japanese traditions deepened, leading him to return to Japan in 2011, the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
After returning, he worked as an assistant to photographer Sadamu Saito in Tsukuba. This experience sparked a strong interest in architectural photography, and he was deeply influenced not only by Saito’s approach to photography as a form of expression, but also by his attitude toward the act of photographing itself. Currently, Takeuchi works mainly in commercial photography, undertaking projects such as food and facility photography for resort hotels operating nationwide, as well as architectural completion photography.