ABOUT ME
Photographer/Wet Plate Photographer/Mirrorbowler
2005 Start to work as a Bicycle Messenger in Tokyo.
2006 Move to United States of America.
Start to learn about surviving skills at Arizona local Hunters Camp.
At the same time,begins to record with a photograph of their lifestyle.
2008 in order to review the survival technology, carry out the two months long trail in the winter of the Rocky Mountains in Canada.
after Canada,Move to Mexico again.
Learn about Native Maya people's ocean skills at Yucatan local fisherman's camp for a year.
2009 Back to Japan.start to work as a photographer.
Mainly performing Live shooting of music-related, interviews shooting, a fashion shooting.
Join a professional group of space decoration, a member of the Mirrorbowler at the same time. https://www.facebook.com/Mirrorbowler/
In various parts of Japan, carry out the construction of objects using a large number of mirror ball.
2014 Start to restoration the Wet Plate Photo Method which is 160ys before people used to take photography.
Peta Photo Studio itself makes a darkroom and a camera at the photography spot.
A film is created on a glass plate, development, fixing, and all the processes are performed, and we pass a photographic subject on that spot.
It is a photograph made of the glass only for one piece in the world.
After a study, we raise the portability of the wet plate photograph technology which opened it movable type the photo studio out in the blue sky that can jorney every parts of Japan.
Jan.2015 we made the special camera used by duralmin case of 30cm x 60cm.
Mar.2015 Peta Photo Studio has been invited to the festival that takes place in the large-scale commercial facilities
that Osaka Grand Front.
At there we made the special huge camera of 2m x 2m which visitors can go inside the camera.
This workshop was a great success because the visitors can get special experience which is all the process of
photography and mechanism of a camera.
Oct.2015 Challenged to make huge size of glass films by the huge camera in Tsuzuki ruins park .
And succeeded to make the huge size of glass photo which is 60cm x 80cm.
2016 We opened the Wet Plate Photo Studio at the Burningman.
It is the hugest and most crazy festival in the world.

Please check my website
https://www.petaphotostudio.com/

From April 2017,I start to travel around North America for 6months with my wife and my baby.
It is for Photo Shooting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Peta Photo Studio is super movable one which goes anywhere in the world!
We want to open photo studio in all over the world.
From April 2017,We start to travel around North America for 6months by van.
We always looking for place to open the photo studio,
That's why we need local information,for example,Gallery, local flea market,party,festival,etc.
And 6months is long term for my family,we always camping.
sometimes we want to stay in the house.
before I hosted couch surfers in Japan,and I met many nice travelers.it was really fun experience for me,and those surfers are still my nice friends.

Interests

• photography
• film photography
• canada
• vancouver
• bicycle messenger
• wet plate photo

What I Can Share with Hosts

Photography.
We can take nice photo by Digital,Film,Wet Plate.
Live concert,Advertising photograph,Souvenir picture.
If you wanna have beautiful Souvenir picture of your family,we want to take picture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Cambodia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan