Fumi Nagasaka I Photographer
Fumi Nagasaka was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1980. She moved to New York studying English and finding out what she wants to do. She began shooting for Japanese cult magazine STREET in 2003 and started to travel in Europe. She met a lot of great people while she was traveling and built her friendship with them. She began shooting her own stories in 2007 for fashion magazines, such as Dazed&Confused UK/Japan, Tank, and Placed.
Her work has a classic, grainy, almost sixties feel. Her snapshot aesthetic, essentially concerned with capturing the often missed beauty in the real, projects a strong sense of hyper-reality; with her images often feeling as though they could just as easily have been discovered on some long lost reel of film belonging to the likes of Scorcese or Warhol.
That is not to say the work is in any sense stylistically retro or contrived. On the contrary Fumi's photographs are candid, real and wholly contemporaneous. It's just that they contain a strange and overarching sense of otherworldliness that lends them something akin to movie scene impact; think scenes from Drugstore Cowboy shot by David Lynch at The Chelsea Hotel and you are kind of getting there.
It is not hard to see the strong influence of her hero Nan Goldin in the work but essentially Fumi is re-interpreting Goldin's practice for a whole new generation; capturing the new wave that is currently crashing mercilessly down upon the clubs, sidewalks and tenement buildings of the western world.
Fumi is currently based in New York, living in Williamsburg.
She is also a regular contributor of dazeddigital.com and Nylon Japan.
www.fuminagasaka.com
projektGALERIE present from July 16th to 20th “ Bahnhof Zoo”
created by New York based Japanese Photographer Fumi Nagasaka
in Summer 2007, together with the projektGALERIE showrooms team
Alban Adam, Simon Heeger & Sven Krüger.
during
BERLINFASHIONWEEK
July 16th to 20th
JB - Space
Torstrasse 230
Berlin Mitte
open daily 11am till 8pm
VERNISSAGE ON July 16th Start pm7
www.jb-space.com
pGs 6 question Interview
pGs > INSPIRATION?
FN< In general, my inspirations come from my experiences like traveling, music, movie, friends etc...
the exhibition for Projekt Galerie in July 2008, I got inspired by a movie "Christane F" and a book "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo".
pGs > LIFE ? STYLE ?
FN< My life is exciting but very stressing same time. Especially being artist and living in New York is such a tough thing. Money, jobs, Friends etc... it is like when i solved a problem, next one is waiting for me. But I believe those experiences are making me strong person. I just have to believe myself.
I am pretty lucky because I am doing things what I wanna do and have great friends around me all over the world.
pGs > FOREVER IN ... ???
FN< my passion
pGs > LOVE ?
FN< great music, traveling, family, friends who loves me and care about me
pGs > HATE ?
FN< fake people, rude people and rich people
pGS > FUTURE ?
FN< having many exhibitions and publishing books, and living in Europe! (I'm working on it!)
