is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 photographer whose work focuses on beauty across racial lines. His work is in the style of Laurie Toby Edison

Laurie Toby Edison

Laurie Toby Edison is an internationally exhibited portrait photographer. Her three suites of photographs include a series of nudes of fat women, a series of nudes of a very diverse cross-section of men, and a series of clothed portraits of women living in Japan...

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Education

Gomi graduated Nihon University

Nihon University

Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....

, Dept. of Photography in 1977. He studied with Laurence Sackman and Michel Benton and then returned to Japan in 1983.

Photography career

Gomi established a company in 1993 called Digitalogue which produces multimedia photography works. At that time, he began to publish a series of books on photos of women of different races, with an emphasis on anatomical differences.

In 1998, his work focused on the subject of loose socks

Loose socks

are a style of baggy sock popular with Japanese high school girls.They were adopted as a fashion which flattered plump calves and also expressed rebellious deviation from Japan's strict dress code for school uniforms...

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Publications

• Nude of J. (with Toni Meneguzzo) (1991)
• Americans 1.0, Los Angeles 1993 (1993) ISBN 978-4894240186
• Yellows 2.0 Tokyo 1993 (1994) CD-ROM
• Yellows 3.0 China 1994 (1994)
• Yellows Privacy (1994) CD-ROM
• Yellows Men (with Kaz Katayama) (1995) ISBN 4-89424-052-1
• Yellows 1.0 1991 (1999)
• Yellows: Contemporary Girls (1997) CD-ROM

External links

• Official website, via digitalogue.com, via jugem.jp