"A picture speaks a thousand words, but all too often the words that are spoken by a portrait are passive, dormant, or lifeless; nothing more than memorials meant to grace dusty hallways. The first time I saw Takako's images leaping out of their frames, I could see that she releases the vital energy of her subjects on the other side of her lens. She sees the very moment when a person is the most “themself," and captures it with empathy and compassion. As an American in Paris, she has the eye to juxtapose the vibrancy of her subjects through the eyes of an international artists."  - Adam Phillips - ÆONLAW