Basketball, hotel management and working in a California skateboard store may not sound like the ideal route to a career in fashion photography.
For Fumi Nagasaka, however, each step along that offbeat, and oftentimes bumpy, path has proven to be influential and key to opening up doors into the world of images.
Born in Nagoya, Nagasaka's childhood passion was the hoops, and her junior high school days were spent going back and forth between the basketball court and team dorm.