1976年 宮城県仙台市生まれ。
明治大学卒業後、スペイン・バルセロナのIDEPにて2年間写真を学ぶ。
その後、2002年に中・南米に渡り、ブラジル リオ・デ・ジャネイロのスラム街シャペウ・マンゲイラにて活動を開始し、写真家となる。2009年帰国。
2011年9月より文化庁新進芸術家海外留学制度研修員としてリオ・デ・ジャネイロに在住。
Daisuke Ito was born in 1976 in Japan.
He had learned photojournalism for 2 years in 2000-2002 at IDEP in Barcelona, Spain.
He had wandered around Central and South America for 7 years in 2002-2009.
He started his career as a photographer in 2004 in slums named Chapeu Mangueira in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work has been published by magazines of Brazil and Japan.
Awards:
2009 "Mainichi Newspaper Award" in the 10th Ueno Hikoma Award, Japan
2010 Shortlisted for Sony World Photography Awards in Professional Sport category
2010 Honorable Mention, Lens Culture International Exposure Awards
2010 Honorable Mention, The 2010 International Photography Awards
2011 Lucie Foundation Scholarship
2011 Burn EPS 2011 FINALISTA
2011 Silver Medal, 2011 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2011 Honorable Mention, The 2011 International Photography Awards
2011 Overseas Training Grant for Emerging Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government（文化庁 新進芸術家海外留学制度研修員）
I`d like to know what Daisuke Ito was like as a child. He is a delightful person, exhuberant, uncalculating, full of joie de vivre.
He has an overwhelming personality that is far removed from our prior expectations of Japanese. Even though I speak passable Japanese, his kindness in trying to communicate overwhelms his common sense as he chatters away to me in Spanish, a language I do not understand. Then he calms down a little and we begin to communicate in Japanese.
Was he like this as a child or was it living for 7 years in South and Central America that shaped him? Or did the young man need to live there to develop in the way he felt he needed to?
Daisuke has lived for 4 years in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, in Mexico where he photographed streetwalkers and in Cuba where he took these pictures of Losolmo gym.