Born in 1980. Kosuke grew up in Tokyo and started his career as a photographer after college graduation in Education. Before joining prospeKt agency, he has worked in Agence Vu’.
Kosuke has been honored with several awards and grants including W.Eugene Smith Fellowship, Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo, PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch, Sony World Photography Awards, and Prix Kodak.
His clients include Time.com, New York Times, Newsweek Japan, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Courrier International, Russian Reporter, foto8, Aera, POLKA Magazine, among others.
Kosuke’s photos have been exhibited in various venus including galleries and international photo festivals, he has collections at Polka gallery in Paris and at Kiyosato Photo Art Museum in Nagano, Japan.
He continues shooting the stories that touch him.
Kosuke is based in Tokyo, Japan.
EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI CONSEQUENCES
by Kosuke Okahara. Tohoku, Japan. April 2011. The “Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster” was caused by a 9.0-magnitude undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred on Friday, 11 March 2011. The epicenter was approximately 72 km east of … Continue reading
LENINA, TRANSNISTRIA: A VILLAGE OF NOSTALGIA
by Kosuke Okahara. Lenina, Transnistria. 2011. Lenina, so called in honour of Lenin, formerly Kolkhoz, is a small isolated village in Transnistria, an unrecognized country situated along the border with Moldavia and Ukraine that declared the independence in 1992. Transnistria … Continue reading
CAIRO UNREST – CHAPTER II: THE NIGHT OF MUBARAK ANNOUNCEMENT
by Francesco Giusti, Kosuke Okahara and Samuele Pellecchia. Cairo, Egypt. Night of February 10th 2011. On 10th afternoon he ruling party officials suggest Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak may meet protesters demand and step down. All the day long thousands of … Continue reading
CAIRO UNREST – CHAPTER I: MUBARAK ON TRIAL
by Francesco Giusti, Kosuke Okahara and Samuele Pellecchia. Cairo, Egypt. February 1st-11th 2011. A massive popular protest began in Egypt on 25th January 2011. The street demonstrations start a week after the Tunisian Revolution, and are focused on legal and … Continue reading
ANY GIVEN DAY
by Kosuke Okahara. Colombia. 2010. “Everything is easy in this town, love, sex, drug, even killing, you know… we have a god who makes everything easy, that’s the god of Medellin.” “I know the situation became quite tough, but we … Continue reading
IBASYO
by Kosuke Okahara. Japan. 2005 – 2008. A little after midnight, my cell phone rang as usual. “I cut myself again… But I’m okay…” Sayuri’s voice coming from the phone didn’t sound okay at all. “You know, I was raped … Continue reading
ALMOST PARADISE
by Kosuke Okahara. Colombia – Mexico. 2008. We live in the entrance of South America, the poor but oil rich country that has been a battleground of 40 years long civil war. Many people want to get out of the … Continue reading
REBELS ON THE EDGE
by Kosuke Okahara. Burma. 2007. “Cloistered away in a diminishing swath of the Golden Triangle, this rebel army has fought the Burmese military government for 46 years. But now, as they territory shrinks and their funding dries up, the soldiers … Continue reading
DANCING AT THE BOTTOM
by Kosuke Okahara. Colombia. 2006. This is the story of people who are working at the very bottom of the drug business. It includes coca farmers in the jungle, drug dealers and addicts on the streets, prisoners who are serving … Continue reading