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Kanako Sasaki was born in Sendai, Japan 1983. She attended Ithaca College for Journalism in New York in 2001. Following Ithaca in 2004 Sasaki also attended School of Visual Arts in New York and lastly around 2006-2007 Sasaki did a stint at the Royal College of Art. Now Sasaki lives in New York and teaches photography classes around the area and has been since around 2004. 

Sasaki has numerous different methods and projects currently in place and that have taken place so rather than approaching her work as a whole I picked one single project Sasaki worked on in her past in order to get a better look at her motivations, composition, concept, and method. They vary from project to project so this is the most precise way. 

The project title is known as Walking in the Jungle. As a whole Sasaki focuses on the "celebration of the capacity for survival of universal emotions." Sasaki searches for a universal memory "of a bygone time in order not to lose her own memory" of not just her past but the past in general. This project solely focuses on the use of photography to access histories and memories. The memories of specific times and places that reveal her memories and nostalgia she has toward the past. Her past and other's past for example she pictured a memory of AF taking place nearly 60 years ago after having to hide in the attack for days on end because of the war currently taking place, World War II. 

Personally I love Sasaki's take on photography. I appreciate what they are attempting to portray while not everyone may not be able to understand it. I love that she is able to represent an entire memory an entire history with the simple  click of a button. She
 can portray someone's every emotion, every feeling through a picture of the past.