Fumi Nagasaka

During the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Nagasaka, a Japanese photographer, became fascinated by the rural and southern United States. Though she had lived in New York City for over a decade, she had never ventured into the American South. That changed when her friend, Tanya Rouse, invited her to Dora, Alabama. Over several years, Nagasaka visited Dora repeatedly, capturing a unique visual archive of life in the small town. These photographs are now featured in her new book.

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Fumi Nagasaka
Born in Nagoya, Japan, Fumi Nagasaka moved to New York in 2002 to explore North American culture. She began her career as a freelance photographer in 2003, shooting for the Japanese cult magazine Street and traveling throughout Europe and the United States to capture documentary photographs.

In 2019, she won the Belfast Photo Festival, and her work was selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in both 2021 and 2023. Nagasaka’s photography has been featured in publications including It’s Nice That, AnOther, and Dazed Digital.