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]

Education

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]}

Photography career

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]

Publications

• Nude of J. (with Toni Meneguzzo) (1991)
• Americans 1.0, Los Angeles 1994 (1994) ISBN 978-4-89424-018-6
• Americans 1.0 Los Angeles (1994) CD-ROM
• Yellows 2.0 Tokyo 1993 (1994) CD-ROM
• Yellows 3.0 China 1994 (1994)
• Yellows Privacy (1994) CD-ROM
• Yellows Men (with Kaz Katayama) (1995) ISBN 4-89424-052-1
• Yellows: Contemporary Girls (1997) CD-ROM
• Americans 1.0 (1998) ISBN 978-4-82112-246-2
• Yellows 1.0 1991 (1999)