CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors who create NiEW together.

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

kaoru goto
Instagram @kaorugto https://www.instagram.com/kaorugto/

Tsutomu Sonoda
Vocalist and guitarist for maya ongaku

Hisashi Murakami
音楽雑誌の編集者を経てフリーの音楽・映画ライターに。洋楽を中心に取材、レビュー、翻訳、プレスリリースなどの制作、SNS運営など。ニューヨークから日本に戻って東京・大阪などで主にリモート中。これまでにビヨンセ、ボウイ、エミネム、ストーンズ、ブリトニー、アリアナなど、おそらく1000人以上にインタビュー。

島岡奈央
1998年生まれ、静岡市在住。2018年、アメリカ在住時にラップのリリック対訳でライター業を始め、それ以降各音楽メディアに寄稿。ヒップホップとR&B、ポップカルチャーを中心に執筆。映画館と音の鳴る場所が好きです。
X: https://x.com/imamole_
note: https://note.com/naomusicreviews

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).

Hiroyoshi Tomite
Born in 1988, he has been working as a freelancer in planning, editorial direction and writing since 2015, and has lived in Berlin, Germany since February 2020. She has worked on Japanese copywriting for Nike Airmax Dn8 and WIRED JAPAN's Berlin series “A CALL OF COMMUNITY.” She has interviewed and written about artists from around the world for various media, including GRIND.

Mom

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.

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
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