Freelance since 2000, a member of Agenzia Grazia Neri from 2006 to 2010, she worked mainly for the editorial with special attention to current events and portraits. Her research in recent years has focused on the evolution of identity, cultural and social comparison with reality apparently distant, but related to personal experiences. She currently lives and works in Milan.
Italians. In 2011 Italy celebrated 150 years since its founding. Many events were held on March 17th the official birthday, and every participant in these events, including foreigners who live in the country, showed their pride in being Italian. On that day I felt a kind of joy, maybe because I feel like I am half Italian after almost 20 years since I moved here from Tokyo. At the beginning, I decided to work on the Italian identity after reading for the umpteenth time in an article in the newspaper about the racial discrimination which exists in the country. I felt I needed to illustrate the present and future of this society photographing Italians, especially those who are mixed blood (half-Italian half-foreigner) to fight against the prejudice. Eventually I noticed that the path I took to search for the Italian identity has overlapped with the journey to find my own identity – that of full blood Japanese girl, but with an Italian soul.
