Hirosuke Kitamura presents the provocative and enigmatic universe of the “Hidra” seriesHidra”

Mediators: Christian Cravo and Marcelo Reis

Hirosuke Kitamura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Raised in Bangkok, Thailand, he was fluent in the Thai language, which he no longer remembers. He trained six days a week in a boxing gym in order to become a professional boxer, but had to give up his dream as his left eye was injured during a fight. In 1990, after graduating in Literature from the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, he came to Salvador through an exchange program and worked in a bank as an intern. He taught Japanese at a university just because he could speak Japanese. In 1995, Kitamura took a crash course in photography and began photographing with a Nikon FM2. In Bahia, he is known as Oske or China.