Yusuke TAKAGi was born in1979, based in Yokohama.
He majored in Sociology in Meijigakuin University. After graduating from there in 2005, he`s worked as a freelance photographer and covered Africa and South East Asia focusing on human rights for people living in an edge. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, he’s been shooting people and landscapes in Fukushima.Two years after the disaster, he got a son, and he’s decided to start a book project called “Kagerou” for facing the nuclear era.
He’s been working on new project, addiction in Japan.
Award　
Human Rights Award in FCCT/OnAsia PHOTO CONTEST 2010
KL INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2012 Portrait Category Finalist
Steidl Book Award In Japan 2016 Long List
Special Prize in FUAM Istanbul photobook festival Dummy award 2017
Exhibition
2010 “The Prison Called Burma”/ FCCT
2012 ”Abandoned”/Zen Foto Gallery
2018 “KAGEROU”/RPS Galllery
Group Exhibition
2012 “Tohoku - Images of a Disaster” / The Burunei Gallery in London
2012 “Images of Tohoku”/ FCCT
2013 “Burma Untold” / forty-five downstairs gallery in Melbourne
2013 The 6th Jeonju Photo Festival in Korea
2016 2016 PHOTOBOOK AS OBJECT EXHIBITION
2017 TOKYO Documentary Photo
2018 "SON BASKI Latest Edition #2" / DAIRE SONAT
2018 Athens Photo Festival 2018 / VOID
2018 Obscura Festival / Hin Bus Depot
Book Exhibition
2017 Istanbul Photobook Festival 2017
2017 Schwarzer Motang
2017 Sicily Photobook Festival
2018 Photobook / NZ
2018 Photo Bangkok
Workshop
2008 Photo Workshop by Garry Knight and Philip Blenkinshop in Cambodia
2016 Photobook as Object by Yumi GOTO and Jan ROSSEL in Riminders Project Stronghold
Publication
2012 “A Year After Fukushima” for Human Rights Watch
2012 “Abandonded” by Zen Foto Gallery
2018 “Kagerou” by AKINA Books