page_title: Osamu James Nakagawa
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caption_attribution_description: English: Osamu James Nakagawa
context_page_description: Osamu James Nakagawa is an American photographer and professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana known for his work using digital photography while the technology was still in its infancy. He was born in New York City and raised in Tokyo, Japan from the age of one. At 15, he moved to Houston, Texas. He earned his bachelor's degree in studio art from St. Thomas University in Houston, Texas in 1986, and he earned is MFA in photography from University of Houston in 1993. Nakagawa's work is shown around the world. He's best known for his Okinawa trilogy which includes Gama, Banta, and Remains. His other bodies of work include Mado, his window series, Drive in Theater, and May 15s. In 2009, he won the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, and in 2010, he won the Higashikawa A New Photographer Award in Japan. In 2014, he also won the Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan
  In many interviews, he describes himself as being culturally "divided" between Japan and America and therefore turns to photography to express that division.
context_section_description: Osamu James Nakagawa (born 1962) is an American photographer and professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana known for his work using digital photography while the technology was still in its infancy. He was born in New York City and raised in Tokyo, Japan from the age of one. At 15, he moved to Houston, Texas. He earned his bachelor's degree in studio art from St. Thomas University in Houston, Texas in 1986, and he earned is MFA in photography from University of Houston in 1993. Nakagawa's work is shown around the world. He's best known for his Okinawa trilogy which includes Gama, Banta, and Remains. His other bodies of work include Mado, his window series, Drive in Theater, and May 15s. In 2009, he won the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, and in 2010, he won the Higashikawa A New Photographer Award in Japan. In 2014, he also won the Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan
  In many interviews, he describes himself as being culturally "divided" between Japan and America and therefore turns to photography to express that division.
caption: Nakagawa at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, November, 2015
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