Akira Gomi (五味 彬, Gomi Akira, born 1953) is a Japanese photographer whose work focuses on beauty across racial lines. His work is in the style of Laurie Toby Edison. [1]
Gomi graduated Nihon University, Dept. of Photography in 1976. [2] He studied with Laurence Sackman and Michel Benton and then returned to Japan in 1983.[ citation needed]
Gomi established a company in 1993 called Digitalogue which produces multimedia photography works. At that time, he began to publish a series of books on photos of women of different races, with an emphasis on anatomical differences, [3] [4] in the style of William Herbert Sheldon's Ivy League nude posture photos.
In 1998, his work focused on the subject of loose socks. [5] [6]