CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors who create NiEW together.

Born 1988 in Ibaraki Prefecture, currently resides in Kyoto City. After graduating from university, he worked at a live music club in Kyoto City and launched the web media ANTENNA in 2012. He was responsible for interviewing, photographing, and writing, and produced many articles. Later, as a web director, he created and maintained websites for various companies, and in 2019, he became independent as a photographer. He does interviews for magazines and web media, as well as photographing people for weddings and music photography.

Yuri Matsui
Writing. I like cats, houseplants, food (charcuterie, spiced food, peaches, hard pudding, big-box Chinese, assorted) and summer. I am interested in things that cannot be reconciled. Sometimes I work as Team Unfinished.
Twitter:https://twitter.com/yr00mt
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/yr00mt/

Chikei Hara
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1998. She is involved in exhibition planning, writing, and research, mainly in the fields of art, fashion, and photography. He is also a research assistant for domestic designer brands. Recent exhibitions include “Kai Silk wo Yomu” (Fuji Textile Week 2023, Yamanashi, 2023), “Yuso Suru Bunjin” (MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, 2022), and “Tokyo Fashion Stride” (Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo, 2023, 2022). He has contributed to The Fashion Post, artscape, Tokyo Art Beat, me and you magazine, Fashion Snap, Blutus, Popeye web, IMA, ARToVILLA, and others.

HINATAKA
Film writer who writes for the web media "All About News", "Netorabo", "CINEMAS+", "Joshi SPA!", "Magmix", etc. Her all-time best movie is "Let Me Hear You Sing Ai".

Rintaro Kanemoto
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1998, he graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 2020 and started his career based in Tokyo. He shoots for magazines, websites, advertisements, and other genres.
Instagram: @torintaro
https://rintarokanemoto.com

Mika Kosugi
After majoring in Western art history, I worked in a small theater in Tokyo. My favorite glide is "seared ribs x 5". My favorite painters are Georges de La Tour and Leon Spilliart. I am of the school that drizzles olive oil on natto.

Shoichiro Kotetsu
Trackmaker/DJ, video production, writing, and more. I have also provided tracks and music for many commercials, and have performed for tofubeats “Vibration” and provided music for the game “MINDHACK”.
https://kotetsu-shoichiro.com/

Hiroshi Okamoto
Born in Tokyo in 1990. Graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. While in school, studied sociology and anthropology, and frequently visited Eastern Africa. After graduation, worked for a video production company before going independent. While working mainly in magazines, web media, and advertising, she focuses on the relationship between society and the individual, and creates works that take the social background and social structure as their subject matter, showing them both in Japan and abroad. His work has won the runner-up prize at the Dummy Award Kassel in Germany, been published in overseas magazines such as Foam Magazine in the Netherlands and Le Monde in France, and his photo book “Recruit” was selected as one of the 10 best photo books by Italian Vogue magazine in 2016.
WEB : https://hiroshi-okamoto.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hiroshi_okamotoo/

Shimanuki Taisuke
Art writer and editor, born 1980 in Kanagawa. Based in Kyoto and Beppu, he also travels to Tokyo, writing, editing, and planning for CINRA.NET, Tokyo Art Beat, Bijutsu Techo, etc. From the fall of 2022, he will hold the performance event "Small Onsen Art Festival Yunoue FOREVER! The second event is scheduled to be held in the fall of 2023.

Ryohei Matsunaga
Born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1968. Started writing with the music magazine "Rhythm & Pencil," which he started with his friends. His books include "Boku no Heisei Pants Socks Shoes Songbook," "20th Century Greatest Hits," "Koizumi Single" (a book accompanying Kyoko Koizumi's best album "Koizumi Chronicle"), "Music Manga Guidebook" as an editor, and books he edited include Goro Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nagai's "Friends Like Music," Ichiro Asazuma's "Hit is Everything," Masao Onose's "Guitarist Daikokuurai," and "Rock Gaho/Kakubarizumu Special Issue. He has also translated Terry Southern's "Red Dirt Marijuana" and Brian Wilson's "The Autobiography of Brian Wilson.

Maki Shibata
Born in 1997, Aquarius. From Nishiogikubo on the Chuo Line to Seijogakuenmae on the Odakyu Line.Writing for Musicman, ANTENNA, and other publications. X|Instagram

Nayuta Osanai
Film and foreign drama writer. An "independent theatergoer" working as a playwright, director, and actor in the small theater scene in Tokyo. He continues to watch mainly American movies and TV series.
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