MASATO USHIMARU
Photographer, Design doer
Born in Hida-Takayama, Japan. Engaged in research-based projects such as OUR CO-BLIND, an ethnographic exploration of social movements led by a community of visually impaired people in the northern Philippines, and FOG AND SUN, a reflective visual ethnography of two years of research life in Denmark. Masato has a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University in Denmark. Combining visual anthropology and design methodologies, his work employs photography as a tool for dialogue and multi sensory exploration.