INVITED PHOTOGRAPHER 2019
Collaborating Member 2020

“Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley.”
(Walter Benjamin)

Meu nome é Rogério Akiti Dezem, nasci em 1974 na cidade de Osasco em São Paulo (Brasil).

Desde os três anos de idade enxergo a miopia do mundo através das lentes, observando a partir da minha “câmera escura” o movimento das coisas ao meu redor, sem procurar entendê-las, apenas flanando… Portanto, a escolha (tardia) em fotografar pessoas “estranhas” nas ruas para mim foi algo natural.

Para mim Fotografia é o exercício do olhar sobre aquilo que não é.

My name is Rogerio Akiti Dezem, I was born in Osasco city in Sao Paulo State, Brazil in 1974.

Since I was three years old I see the world myopia through my glasses, observing from my “darkroom” the movement of things around me, without trying to understand them, just wandering around… Therefore, my (late) choice in photographing “strangers” in the streets for me was something natural.

For me Photography is the exercise of seeing for what is not.

Website

Naniwa, a city without a face…

Flickr

World Street Photography

Blog about Japanese Photography

Photobook ECHOES (2012-2015)

From the project: ‘Naniwa, a city without a face…’