(Oct 7, 1940, Boston, MA [Winthrop, MA]–Aug 24, 2019) David Akiba has been making photographs for 42years. His work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Library of Congress, the Fogg Art Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum the DeCordova Museum, the Boston Public Library and other public and private collections. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Akiba lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with his wife Jane. He has six children; Daniel, Jonah, Rachel, Samuel, Isaac and Abigail. Akiba has had a retrospective exhibition of his landscape photographs at the Rose Art Museum, and a major exhibition of his work covering almost thirty years at the Wiggin Gallery of the Boston Public Library. A solo exhibition of his family photographs entitled “A Separate Journey” was exhibited In New York City at the 92nd Street Y. His “Light Struck” images were included in a group exhibition entitled “Luminous Form, Abstraction in Color Photography” at the DeCordova Museum.