Daisuke Sasaki
School of Visual Arts, New York

Daisuke was born and raised in Ena City, Gifu, Japan.  He completed his BA in Economics at Nihon University in Tokyo.  His work is inspired in part, by his experiences of living in the Northwest where he did post-graduate work in Fine Arts at Pacific Lutheran University.  Much of his work in photography integrates his experiences  as a foreigner who has dealt with the psychological impact of being in an industrial accident at the age of eighteen.  He uses photographic images and sculptures as a metaphor for this scarring.  He is currently a freelance photographer in New York City and is a committee member for the project Ripple Across the Watari at Water-UM, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 1994-95.