Takuma Nakahira

Born in Tokyo in 1938, Takuma Nakahira is a photographic artist who lived and worked in Japan until the end of his life in 2015. After graduating in Spanish from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1963, he worked as a critic for a contemporary magazine, which he left to pursue his career as a photographer. Co-founder of the Provoke movement in 1968, he revolutionized the medium by rejecting narrative photography in favor of raw, enigmatic images. The Provoke movement defended "accidental" photography, favoring an instinctive, raw approach to denounce the narrative and documentary limits of the image. Nakahira has exhibited at prestigious institutions such as MoMA in New York in 2021 and the Tate Modern in London.