Born in 1986 in Kagoshima, in southern Japan, Yurina Niihara studied human sciences at university and worked as a presenter before becoming a photographer. After the Fukushima disaster, she decided to come to Paris to study photography. “The fact of leaving my country opened my eyes to the point of losing my bearings. Today this vertigo is the motor that drives my creativity”, she explains. After gaining her diploma from EFET, she centers her work on the theme of eroticism and its connection in today’s society.
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