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Takashi Nakashima
Profile
Takashi is a wildlife and nature photographer based in Hillsboro, OR. After he earned a degree in animal resource science in university, he worked for an advertising company, learning the process of photography usage and development. Takashi then studied abroad at the University of Alaska and started taking wildlife photography. His main project is now Alexander Wolves in Alaska and the forest of Nara in Japan where Jomon Wolves are extinct, and he seeks to express an interconnection between the two island wolves. Takashi has also been researching environmental issues as well.
Talk session in Nara, Japan
”We Japanese had enshrined wolves. We eliminated them. We missed them. Historically. And, now we all forget them...”
“Alaska Night” Event in Shibuya, Japan with Naoko Hoshino
Testing CAM trap
Takashi is pretending a lynx in the photo. It is important to know how the animal acts and moves. But, it looks a bit silly…
Print making
When prints, he struggles each time how he could translate digital image to authentic nature on a paper.