is a Japanese photographer. Tsuda has published works focused on subjects in

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, and

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. His work has been exhibited in Japan, Italy, and the United States. He has been recognized for his work documenting the

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residents of the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago in the early 1990s.

Biography

Tsuda was born in 1966 in

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. In 1989, Tsuda left Japan for the United States on a work visa, and lived in

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for a short time. He then moved to the Pilsen neighborhood of

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and studied photography at

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. One of Tsuda's school projects at Columbia was to document his neighborhood, and his work depicted some of the streets between

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to Western Avenue and 16th Street to

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. These works were first made available in a self-published book called ''made me better than before'', which had limited circulation and promptly sold out. Tsuda created a second edition of the book called ''Pilsen Days'' in 2016 after getting feedback from Pilsen residents.

Exhibitions and recognition

Tsuda's work has been exhibited in

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, and Chicago. In May 2001, Tsuda won the Hitotsuboten, a Tokyo-based annual contest for graphic design and photography for his solo exhibition titled .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsuda, Akito Japanese photographers 1966 births Living people People from Hamamatsu