Background
Kobayashi was born in Ōdate, Akita in 1952.
小林 のりお
Kobayashi was born in Ōdate, Akita in 1952.
He left Nippon Dental College in 1980, before graduation, and graduated from Tokyo College of Photography (postgraduate course) in 1983.
Kobayashi had a solo exhibition "Landscapes" at Gallery Eye-Heart, Tokyo in 1982, showing a series of landscapes taken in the urban marginal area, often developed for housing or a new city development. Kobayashi"s photographs were exhibited with those by Yūji Saiga, Naoya Hatakeyama and Toshio Yamane in an exhibition, Land of Paradox, that travelled around the United States in 1996-1997.