is a Japanese photographer. He is known for his fashion and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in photography.
Biography Sawatari won the Japan Photograph Association's Nendo Sho (Annual Award) of 1973 for his book Nadia,Photography Year 1974. Time-Life Books, 1974, p. 183. which visually documents his romantic relationship with the Italian fashion model Nadia Galli. He won their 1979 award for Alice from the Sea. In 1990 he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award in Photography for Taste of Honey.
His photographs have been exhibited by many institutions including Ginza Wacoal Hall and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
His book Alice, an interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is controversial for its full-frontal nudity of a prepubescent girl.
Books Nadia: Mori no Ningyokan. Japan: Camera Mainichi / Mainichishinbun-sha, 1973. Reprint edition: Japan: Asahi Sonorama, 1977. Excerpt edition: Nadia in Sicily 1971 Ricochet, 2004 Alice / Arisu. Tokyo, Japan, 1973 Seiji Ozawa. Japan: Shueisha, 1975 Alice from the Sea. Tokyo, Japan: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1979 Taste of Honey. IPC, 1990 (with Amy Yamada) A Girl. Japan: Hysteric Glamour, 2000 Nadia [B&W & Color, 2 vol. set], Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2016
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References Nihon shashinka jiten () / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. .