Karina Taira

Japanese American photographer and film director, Karina Taira was born in San Francisco. She picked up a camera when she was 6 years old shooting the things she loved around her, her friends, family, horses, everything. At 15 she was shooting documentary and conceptual art projects and portraits as personal work. Not surprisingly, she started her professional career at the young age of 19, while still attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and traveled between Tokyo and Los Angeles. After moving to New York, she was awarded the Diesel perfume campaign which then brought her to Europe. This in turn led to major editorial and advertising work in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and London. She specialized in beauty, luxury and skin with an organic touch, keeping a sensual feminine approach to her work. She loves to show beautiful women with a feminine and strong mood. Her images have led her to having a contract with Life Magazine shooting all of the celebrities for their covers. Karina has also been busy shooting commercials from perfume to car commercials all over the world. At the present time Karina divides her time between Paris and the rest of the world, traveling from project to project and dancing tango in Buenos Aires in the moments between. Her next big dream is to move intofeatures as she is currently writing her first script.

there are some images on this website where there are lots of different images, her main type of photography is modeling and close up, taking peoples of peoples bodies and clothing, i really like her photographs because they are quite old but also show a little bit of new to them, i really like how she is mainly into fashion and models. i like how she doesnt really edit any of her images, and how she was looking for other things to do as well as photography.

i think fashion might have pushed her more towards doing this, and the different types of war and everything going on would have made him want to do more images like this.

here is the link as it wont let me take any pictures off her website on to this website.

http://www.karinataira.com/bio