Katsu Naito (b. 1964 Japan) is a Japanese photographer that moved to Harlem, New York from Tokyo, Japan in 1983. Positioning himself as a trusted outsider he captured the landscape and people in Harlem in the late 1980s.
“Once in Harlem, Naito's second monograph builds on his remarkable ability to intimately engage with his subjects to create emotional dialogues that can transcend bounds of ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic strata, to, as he puts it, "look into each other’s soul to build another dimension of a relationship." (TBW Books)