Yusuke Takagi is a Japanese photographer who majored in sociology. As a freelance photographer, he covered Africa and South-East Asia, focusing on human rights. From 2010 to 2016, he used the name Katsuo Takahashi.
Yusuke Takagi is a Japanese photographer who majored in sociology. As a freelance photographer, he covered Africa and South-East Asia, focusing on human rights. From 2010 to 2016, he used the name Katsuo Takahashi.
After the Tohoku tsunami and nuclear accident in Fukushima, he extensively covered the aftermath, shooting affected people and landscapes.
His book Kagerou (Akina Books, 2018), initiated after the birth of his son in 2013 - two years after the tsunami - deals with facing the dangers of nuclear power.
Presentation by Akina Books : " « Kagerou : the heat haze, a lake in the desert, decay heat powered by the nuclear radiation, invisible, pervasive. It was 12 March 2011. The day after Fukushima nuclear disaster, I woke up in a shrouded Tokyo: the cityscape looked blurred and twisted. Nobody else seemed to notice: for 37 million people it was business as...