Yusuke Takagi

Yusuke Takagi is a Japanese photographer. Born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the sociology department at Meiji Gakuin University, he began working as a freelance photographer in 2005. In 2010, he won the Human Rights Award in FCCT/OnAsia PHOTO CONTEST 2010 for his work on the trafficking of Burmese people. In the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, he took up the theme of Japanese society. The dummy book, which captures the world after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...See more

Yusuke Takagi is a Japanese photographer. Born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the sociology department at Meiji Gakuin University, he began working as a freelance photographer in 2005. In 2010, he won the Human Rights Award in FCCT/OnAsia PHOTO CONTEST 2010 for his work on the trafficking of Burmese people. In the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, he took up the theme of Japanese society. The dummy book, which captures the world after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident from the perspective of a father, won the Special Prize at the 2017 FUAM Istanbul Photobook Dummy Award and published a photobook, Kagerou, by AKINA Books in 2018. The book has been named as one of the best photobooks of 2018 by TIME magazine. See less