One of the first photobloggers in New York City, Rion has been documenting with photography since late 2000. From street photography to personal shots taken in cities in North America, Japan, and Europe, more than 6,000 of her photos have been published on this site.
NAME AND LOCATION
My name is Rion Nakaya. I currently live in Paris, France London, England.
EQUIPMENT
I'm shooting with a Canon 30D, a Sigma 18-50mm DC f:2.8 EX Lens, a Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX Lens, and occasionally with the Canon Telephoto EF 85mm f1.8.
I use to shoot with the canon slr eos digital rebel (until it died in November 2006), the kit EFS 18-55mm lens (until it died in March 2006), and occasionally with the canon 50mm f1.8 (which I don't recommend). Older photos are taken with a digital elph (first the s100, then the s230).
PUBLICATIONS
My photos have been published in Gawker, Gothamist, The Morning News, New York Metro, The New York Sun and The Village Voice. You can also find interviews or further photography of mine here:
JPG Magazine // Issue 6: Oops!
Metro Newspaper New York // Blogarithms: Photo Finish
The Morning News // Faces of the Marathon
Kulture Flash // Interview with artist Ernesto Neto
Salon.com // Flickr: The Friendster of Photo Sites
The Photobloggies // 2005 Winner: Best Photoblog Design
Village Voice // Forbidden Photos, Anyone?
Slate.com // Picture Pages: Websites for People Who Hate to Read
The Mirror Project // Rion Nakaya
RE: PUBLISHING RION.NU PHOTOS
Please ask. All photos published on rion.nu are under copyright, and others who publish rion.nu photos on their sites have approval. If you post rion.nu photos on a site, then please link back to rion.nu within an attribution line. approval for commercial use requires a usage agreement and payment for publication rights.
INSPIRATIONS
Though there are many, I always come back to Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Friedlander, and Robert Frank. They've done the kind of work that I wish I did. And often think about doing.
And though I enjoy the work of a long and growing list of photo- bloggers/graphers, there are a few friends that directly influence my compositions or the thoughts behind them: Raul Gutierrez, Joseph Holmes, Michael David Murphy, and Peter Ross.
A fuller list of inspirations and interests are saved at del.icio.us / riondotnu.
ABOUT THIS SITE
Rion.nu is designed and maintained by me (Rion). Development of core templates and functions were built by Michael Cosentino. I bought the url in January, 1999 for my design portfolio, and instead started photoblogging here in late 2000. The archives go back to April, 2001. This design is version 6point-something.
ELSEWHERE
Besides being here, you can find me on flickr, del.icio.us, ffffound, and in the archives of Mike and Rion. For more, please look on Technorati or google me: rion.nu and rion+nakaya.
