Maki
マキ
Born and based in Marseille, France, Maki is a photographer, publisher, DJ and radio producer.
He began taking photographs as a teenager and studied photography at school in the early 80's.
He began his photographic career by trying out different disciplines, working as an assistant photographer in an industrial and advertising photography studio, photographer for a modeling agency... He then photographed the European cities with which he was connected (Venice, Barcelona, Marseille, etc.), which led him to hold his first personal exhibition in Marseille in 1986.
Disappointed by the world of photography, he stopped shooting for a few years before returning to photography with a more personal and experimental approach.
In 2001, he traveled to Japan for the first time and began photographing and building his series entitled "Japan Somewhere", from which he later published his eponymous book with Zen Foto Gallery.
In 2007, Maki was a founding member of the European photography collective SMOKE.
In 2010, he founded Média Immédiat Editions and published a collection of mini-photobooks. To date, 11 mini-books have been published with Onaka Koji, Morten Andersen, Ed Templeton, Ichiba Daisuke, and others.
Maki has exhibited his work in Europe and Japan and has been featured in numerous international publications.
