Education
Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of Waseda University and then went to Tokyo College of Photography, graduating in 1964.
秋山 忠右
Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in 1941, Akiyama studied in the Faculty of Political Science of Waseda University and then went to Tokyo College of Photography, graduating in 1964.
He became an assistant to Yasuhiro Ishimoto but very quickly turned freelance. Akiyama traveled to east and west Europe just before the destruction of the Berlin Wall. He also photographed carnivals in the West Indies at around this time.
Akiyama taught at Punjab College of Photography from 1970.
Kyoto: Kyōto Shorin, 1998. (volume 1), (volume 2).