#32 - Karuna Shinsho - July 15, 2018 - McLean, Virginia
Monday, August 5, 2019
An old high school friend of mine suggested that Karuna would make a great subject. He had attended high school with her in Japan back in the mid-1980s. So I got an introduction via Facebook and we set up a photography date to make these images. I met Karuna for the first time the day I photographed her for this project.
Karuna has lived an exciting and interesting life. She grew up in Hawaii and Japan. Karuna got an early start in television news as a news anchor in Japan while she was still in college working for NHK Television. A few years later she went to grad school in New York and worked for NHK's bureau there. Then she lived in Singapore working for Asia Business News (later merged with CNBC Asia) and then to Hong Kong as an International anchor for CNN. She has also lived in Africa and traveled to many places around the world. She left the news business when she started a family and raised her two boys. They are now teenagers and are both talented musicians like their mother.
Karuna is also pursuing a passion of studying and singing jazz. As of this writing she is learning to sing Bossa Nova in Portuguese and will perform with a renowned Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from New York at an upcoming concert. She has started to sing in clubs in the Washington, DC area and will perform in Japan this November.
In the year since I've met Karuna, I have photographed her many more times, but with a digital camera. She is now a good friend.
Karuna has lived an exciting and interesting life. She grew up in Hawaii and Japan. Karuna got an early start in television news as a news anchor in Japan while she was still in college working for NHK Television. A few years later she went to grad school in New York and worked for NHK's bureau there. Then she lived in Singapore working for Asia Business News (later merged with CNBC Asia) and then to Hong Kong as an International anchor for CNN. She has also lived in Africa and traveled to many places around the world. She left the news business when she started a family and raised her two boys. They are now teenagers and are both talented musicians like their mother.
Karuna is also pursuing a passion of studying and singing jazz. As of this writing she is learning to sing Bossa Nova in Portuguese and will perform with a renowned Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from New York at an upcoming concert. She has started to sing in clubs in the Washington, DC area and will perform in Japan this November.
In the year since I've met Karuna, I have photographed her many more times, but with a digital camera. She is now a good friend.
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