“I tend to look for stories that are less told than others,” Liverani said in an interview with La Fiamma ...
Laura Liverani photographs lesser known communities in Japan
Japan-based Italian documentary photographer Laura Liverani is currently exhibiting at the Japan Foundation, in Sydney, with her show ‘Coexistences: Portraits of Today’s Japan’, a surveillance of six portraiture series which follow communities of elderly cheerleaders, senior models, women sumo wrestlers, tobi construction workers, spandex suit enthusiasts and Hokkaido’s indigenous Ainu population.
Kaori and Toshi, two spandex suit enthusiasts known as ‘zentai’. (Photo: Laura Liverani)
Jyuri Beniya, a female sumo wrestler. (Photo: Laura Liverani)
Maya Sekine of the Ainu people. (Photo: Laura Liverani)
Kaori and Toshi, two spandex suit enthusiasts known as ‘zentai’. (Photo: Laura Liverani)
