a-kon-unofficial: Welcome to A-Kon the world famous Minori! She will be shooting her next photoshoot
a-kon-unofficial: Welcome to A-Kon the world famous Minori! She will be shooting her next photoshoot in Dallas! Minori first became involved in shironuri art in 2009. After appearing on the fashion snap page on Tokyo Fashion.com in Harajuku, her art became popular on the internet, and her Facebook followers currently total around 50,000. Her Youtube video demonstrating the application of Shironuri make up, “Shironuri Makeup Tutorial by Minori” has been played approx. 400,000 times. Her work is strongly inspired by nature. Starting with her first original work “Ajisai (hydrangea)” in 2011, she has showcased series of work including a “language of flowers” collection and a “nature” collection. Her first appearance at overseas events was in 2014. She has been featured in the International Business Times in the UK, amongst others, and her original costume and photos are to be in the collection of Honolulu Museum of Art. In August 2015, she showcased collaboration work with well-known Sanrio character My Melody at the manga expo in Taiwan. Teppei Takazawa : PhotographerTeppei is a Japanese photographer, and minori’s artistic photos are mainly photographed by him. Teppei studied photography while he was in New York. After he graduated from Queens College CUNY, He started his career as a Black & White printer at the Mark Markheim Lab in Manhattan. He came back to Japan in 2005. He mainly photographed for Net ViVi CC mean while he started making a photo documentary of pole-dancers in Tokyo. He met minori in July 2011, and they made “Hydrangea” together at that time. Since then, Teppei has been photographing and supporting minori. -- source link