Shinya Rachi

Shinya Rachi is a photographer and image-maker born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1986, whose practice circles around the idea of balance — how it is sought, and how it is quietly held. Working between photography, film and artwork, he builds visual essays that treat light, texture and the ordinary arrangement of things as evidence of equilibrium.

His work moves between editorial and design. For the first edition of alter. Tokyo in 2025 he was the visual author of Voidbark, a project that turned the fifty tonnes of bark discarded each year by Kameyama Lumber Mill into objects, alongside Yumi Nishida of Other Design and Sho Iwazaki of the atelier Iwakagu, which gave the material its form. Alongside commissioned photography he sells prints through his own shop.