I was born and raised in Tokyo, which is where I still live – in the downtown area, full of old tenements and traditional coffee shops.
I graduated from junior college speciali...
I must have been no more than eight or nine years old when I started to watch classic gangster and detective films. Gradually, I became fascinated by the figure of the anti-hero...
Recently I posted a couple of portraits on my Instagram feed and someone commented that it made a nice change. That comment got me thinking, why aren’t there many portraits? How...
In 2016 I travelled to Rohingya refugee camps in Burma and Bangladesh to shoot portraits of the people living there with a Fujifilm GA645. I was interested in the plight of the ...
Inspiration is one of the most beautiful feelings for me. People who work with passion on their art/project can be very inspiring. But there are also others who have had to deal...
It is common today that women are photographed sexy and slightly undressed to attract attention to the subject, photographer or both. There is so much of this sort of photograph...
The joy of being a parent is something that no one can really explain, but only experience. From its high points to its lows, there is always something new to learn and cherish ...
When debating about what to write for a blog post, I thought about what inspires me to photograph, because those inspirations are connected and propel my desire to write. I had ...