Shari Nakagawa

I am a photographer.

I wait for moments. I scale fences and lie in the dirt if it will bring out the best in you. I skip through the fairytales of children, relish the love of families and capture the art of a dancer.

I am a dancer.

I stand backstage, with butterflies in my stomach. I dance with a renowned troupe, dazzling audiences with full length productions and dynamic solos. I teach. I study. I get lost in the music only to realize as the music ends that there is an audience watching.

I am a teacher.

I distill the complexities of the modern digital camera into language that every mom-ographer or technology obsessed dad can understand. I create fun and active classes for dancers to relish. And in a past life, I coralled children in Japan and filled them with the knowledge that English is fun, not just a subject to be taken.