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The Kyotographie festival, founded by Lucille Reyboz and Yusuke Nakanishi, aims to create new synergies and explore the contemporary identity of the city of Kyoto through photography. This is the first edition and it looks very promising.
Inspired by the Rencontres d’Arles, the Kyotographie festival presents eight photographers: Eikoh Hosoe, Onishi Seiwemon, ShiroTakatani, Tadashi Ono, Malik Sidibe, Kate Barry, Nicolas Bouvierand especially Naoki.
The latter had been introduced to the public by Chanelin Chanel Nexus Hall ( the creative capitalism is definitely becoming increasingly transaesthetic).
But back to Naoki, who could easily pass for a trendy young photographer, but he is a real artist born in 1950. He studied in the US, originally aspired to become a painter, later shifting to photography because of his affinity for working with people.
After flourishing as a photographer in the fashion mecca of Milan and London, he returned to Japan in 1987. He established a commercial agency in Tokyo, the first of its kind in Japan, called Face to Face, for the management of models, photographers, and hair- and make-up artists.
In 1995, he published a photography book titled “Ordinal”, accompanied by exhibits in Tokyo and Paris. Naoki held the photo exhibit “Summer Diary” in Sifinos at the Logos Gallery in Shibuya Parco in 2008, and the exhibit “Shibuya Kawaii Style” at the Blitz Gallery (Art Photo Site Tokyo) in 2009.
His ongoing theme is to portray 21st century Japanese girls, as someone who’s shot fashion internationally, and seen many models to grow up over many years. He now trains models,photographers and does not seem to have lost an ounce of originality that characterized his early work, depicting the Japanese girl of twenty-first century.
The purpose of his latest series Mood9 Girls pictures is to “show the absolute beauty”, he said. We’ll let you judge for yourself.
Naoki @ Kyotographie Festival 2013
-Kyoto, Japan –
Via www.blended.fr
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