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Q&A
Q: What song do you play on repeat?
A: “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & The Drells.
Q: What’s the best way to start the day?
A: Sipping a cup of strong coffee and seeing my daughter’s smile.
Q: What are you most looking forward to this year?
A: Going to the beach with my family.
Q: What is the most impactful project you’ve worked on and why.
A: My personal work, Thinking of Home. It is very personal and helps me to connect my family and hometown.
Q: Which art/photo exhibit that you’ve seen has impacted you the most?
A: A retrospective exhibition of photographs by Hiro, at Pace Macgill Gallery in NYC, 2016.
Q: What mystery do you wish you knew the answer to?
A: What happens after death.
Q: What are some things you had to unlearn?
A: How to use chopsticks properly – I used to hold them in a very strange way.
Q: What fictional place would you most like to go?
A: Paradise.
Q: What book impacted you the most?
A: HIRO (Photography book).
Q: What risks are worth taking?
A: The risks I know I would regret if I didn’t take.
Q: What are the first 3 chapters of your autobiography titled?
A: 1. Childhood, 2. Tokyo, and 3. New York.
Q: What do you spend the most time thinking about?
A: Photography and my family.
Q: Best and worst advice you’ve ever received.
A: Be creative.
Q: One thing you can’t show up to a shoot without – Besides a camera 😉
A: My eyeglasses.
