Minsa YOU
劉 敏史 （ゆう みんさ）
１９７４年 京都府出身。人間とは? 写真とは? 写真家とは? を写真に問う人。十代半ばより、国内外を旅する。幾つかの職業を経て、独学で写真を始める。１９９９年より開始した長い旅の後、旅の終わりを題材にした「The END」（２００１年）、エチオピアのオモ渓谷に住むエスニックグループ・Hamarのポートレイト「ユビクヰタスキアスム 」（２００５年）を発表。自己という内世界と他者という外世界のフィールドを越境し、他者への眼差しに孤島からの脱出を問う。２００５年 Visual Arts Photo Awardを受賞。出版には写真集「果実」（２００５年）がある。現在は東京にて活動を続ける。
Minsa YOU
Born in Kyoto in 1974. a person who asks “What the world is”, “What the human being is”, “What the photograph is”, and “What the photographer is” through the photography. Travelled in and out of Japan during the teen years. After several jobs, I started teaching myself photography. Finding out at an early age that I was not Japanese led me to the pursuit of the answers to the questions “What is the self-identity?”, “What is the self?” and “What is the human being?” After coming back from the profound journey begun in 1999, I had solo exhibitions “The END“ (2001) on the end of my journey and “Ubiquitous chiasm” (2005) featuring the portrait of Hamer, one of the ethnic groups living in Omo Valley in Ethiopia.These works are my record of the “Adventure of the Soul”, which transcends the fields of my being that is the “Self” and the outside world that is the “Others”. And also question the essence of the existences of the universe and the human being. Published a photography book, “KAJITU” in 2005 Currently living in Tokyo and continuing my creative work.