CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors who create NiEW together.

Born in 1995 in Taito-ku, Tokyo, he began his career as a photographer in 2021. He mainly produces works and art direction based on his hometown, Taito-ku, while also shooting corporate visuals, fashion snaps, and interview photos. She loves gal culture and subcultures, and also creates works based on them.

Takaaki Fujise
1987 福岡市出身
大学進学で上京、卒業後TV/WebCM等の撮影部
その後東北岩手盛岡に活動拠点を移して広告制作会社にて撮影業に従事
2020年春より福岡に戻ってきて独立
福岡→東京→岩手→福岡
常にどこかで新しいことに挑戦中
やさしい光の中で人を撮ることが好きです

Tsutomu Sonoda
Vocalist and guitarist for maya ongaku

Mari Nagatomi
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University. Specializes in American cultural history, popular music, and border crossing. He is the editor of “Tectonic Shift in Country Music: Diverse Stories” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2024), co-author of “10 Perspectives on Pop Music” (Artes Publishing, 2020), and co-author of “Nyumon: Bunka-history of Popular Music: Rereading Postwar Japan” ( (Minerva Shobo, 2024).

Shiori Ikeno
Photographer. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1991. In recent years, he has been challenging himself with various photographic expressions across genres, such as shooting for fashion magazines, brand looks and advertisements, and visual photography for musicians. He is also actively working both in Japan and abroad, regularly holding exhibitions and releasing collections of his work, from his base in Tokyo.

Ichiko Uemoto
Kazuko Uemoto, photographer, born in Hiroshima in 1984, won the Canon New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award in 2003, and in 2013 launched "Natural Studio," a photo studio using natural light in Shimokitazawa. He is the author of "Work ECD Watashi no Ikkaku Chaoki", "Kananai", "Kazoku no Last Hi", "Surrender Records", "Vermeer", "Typhoon Issho", "Love Takes Time", and a collection of photographs, "Happily Ever After". His latest book, "About Sabisashi" (co-authored with novelist Yusei Takiguchi).

Tsuya chan
Contributed to music, literary, and fashion magazines. She is the co-founder of "Cosmetics Begins to Speak", an activity to think about alternative ways of beauty in 2022.

Shun Ishiwaka
Percussionist, born in 1992 in Hokkaido. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts after studying percussion at the high school attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Upon graduation, he received the Acanthus Music Award and the Doseikai Award. As a leader project, he leads Answer to Remember, SMTK, and Songbook Trio, and has participated in numerous live performances and productions by Quruli, Ringo Sheena, KID FRESINO, Ozora Kimishima, CRCK/LCKS, and many others.

Rikimaru Yamatsuka
SF (Soulful) writer/tension critic/professional playboy.
His independent magazine “T.M.I.” released in '22 and '23 was a small historical hit.
He is a narrator in an R&B band called Young Love, and is also active in a neo picture-story unit, Pegasus Dan.

Daniel Takeda
Born in 1997, born and lives in California, USA. Currently a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. While continuing to work as an agent to connect artists in Japan and abroad, and to connect music and society, he also writes as a writer. Her first book, “Sekai to Watashi no A to Z,” a compilation of serial articles from the literary magazine “Gunzo,” will be followed by “#Z-Generation Values” (both from Kodansha) in the fall of 2023.

Takafumi Ando
Editor, border culture researcher, dramaturg, and representative of TISSUE Inc.
He is active mainly in the fields of publishing, art, and public projects, with the aim of “thinking about expression and society from the perspective of movement and boundaries. He writes an irregular column “Border Crabs” on Torch web.
IG / X @adtkfm

Minami Goto
Editor and writer. Born in Tokyo.
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