Luis Tsukayama-Cisneros's public scholarship, photography and visual documentation
I would like to announce that my first book has just been launched in Spanish by Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. “Comiendo Con El Corazón: Cómo La Comida Abre (o No) Espacios de Integración en Lima” (Eating With The Hearth: How Food Opens (or not) Spaces of Integration in Lima.”).
Read MoreThis is a picture taken in San Juan de Lurigancho, a populous district of Lima. These are typical street signs for businesses, or rather, “academies” and “education centers.” What they are selling is the possibility of passing admission exams at prestigious universities in Peru. What is shown in this picture might be alien to most people, but it is actually closer than what you imagine to the current state of education in places such as the United States, where the outcome of education is measured more by statistics than the happiness and wholesome growth of children.
Read MoreIn July this year, I worked as a photographer and personal assistant to professor Eiko Ikegami (sociology and history professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City) on a documentary the NHK (the Japanese broadcasting company, the Japanese equivalent to the British BBC) was filming about her work on people in the autism spectrum that use Second Life (the online virtual world) as a platform for support and socialization.
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