Self-taught photographer Nagi Yoshida has spent a good amount of her career travelling the world and taking photographs of drag queens and indigenous tribes for two separate collections titled 'Heroes' and 'Drag Queen: No Light, No Queen'. The latter was displayed at the Fukuoka Art Museum for the first two weeks of December last year, but in this extraordinary exhibition at the seventh floor gallery space of Seibu Ikebukuro, Yoshida will be presenting works from each series as a single showcase.
At first glance, the members of the Omo Masalai tribe in Papua New Guinea couldn't appear further apart from the sassy drag queens of New York. As you pore over these 90 photographs, however, you might notice how Yoshida’s powerful subjects are connected in their identities as uniquely beautiful people who are often overlooked or marginalised by society.