Aya Takada just put up a lot of new photos on her Flickr, here is a small selection. When I said I wanted to post an edit these photos she said, “be careful! these photos are ヤバイ” – using one of the best slang words in Japanese, which can mean “awesome/tight” but also “super rough/sketchy.” You can probably guess which meaning she meant in this case.

When Aya was featured on Japan Exposures, some of the commenters were bummed that she was shooting things in Tokyo’s infamous Kabukicho district [<—awesome link] without the “in your face“ approach that (Western??) audiences have come to expect (or emulate???). Aya shoots at lot in Kabukicho, but she finds the empty spaces there. It’s not that she’s not hardcore, either, because she is…

Check Aya out on Tumblr and Mindfist.