CURRENT MISSION Understanding how modern human identify their selves, and how the society works, by using photography as a tool. ABOUT ME Studied and worked on public health in UK and South Africa, and received Bachelor of Psychology in Japan. After graduation, I started working for Japanese commercial bank. There I had experienced corporate sales and system engineering for overseas brunches. Now I work as a freelance photographer based in Tokyo. My works are published mainly western medias, such as New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph , USA Today and so on. [Website] http://tarokaribe.samexhibit.com [Interview] http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/05/taro-karibe-tokyo-magnum-workshop/ Also, love to do Japanese martial arts "Kyudo(Japanese archery)"! PHILOSOPHY Try to have serenity to accept what cannot be changed, try to have courage to change what should be changed, and Try to have wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Interested in Archery
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning Arabic
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Meet various people and expand my thoughts/sense of value. Enjoy accidental encounters! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Couch surfed in UK, Hongkong and Russia. Hosted and met up in Japan many times.
Music, Movies, and Books
Film: Andrei Tarkovski Books: Haruki Murakami, Dostoyevsky, Yukio Mishima, Dante Music: Jamiro quai, Tokyo incident
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I died once when I was 21. I fell from a criff in South Africa. It totally changed my life...
Teach, Learn, Share
Sharing our perspective about life, society and history. Also Photograph, Psychology and Japanese.
What I Can Share With Hosts
Japanese, Philosophy, and Photography skill.
My Interests
Photograph, Journalism, Philosophy, Films, Paint, Arts, History and Social system.