“Though I have traveled the world and observed death for over 10 years, I have never grasped its reality; I can only understand death materially. I have found however, that the path from the living to the dead indicates the most precious human virtue: dignity.“ K. Tsurisaki
Born in Toyama in 1966, Tsurisaki graduated from Keio University with a degree in literature. As a teenager he began making independent films, and after graduation from university he briefly tried his hand at pornographic videos. It’s in 1994 that he found his path as a still photographer covering the world’s most dangerous areas from Thailand to Colombia, Russia or the battlefields of Palestine. Death becomes his trademark. The harshness of his images allied to his morbid esthetic provoke repulsion and fascination but mostly they alter the repulsive perception of the state of death, transcending the frailty of human life as well as the rites and customs surrounding the human body throughout the world.
He quickly holds his first photo exhibition at Tokyo’s NG gallery in 1995. It is while collaborating with the group Corrupted that he produces the soundtracks to some of his videos, thus acquiring an international reputation as related in the books “Révélations” and “Requiem de la Rue Morgue” published in France by IMHO/DWW.
