The photographer is a winner of the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship, Getty grants, and the Pierre&Alexandra Boulat Grant. His series Almost Paradise was exhibited at the 100 years Leica photography shows. In 2021, he made blue affair, a video/film made up exclusively of still images. The work was nominated for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the world’s biggest short film festival. The same work won the Jury’s Special Mention at the Las Palmas International Film Festival, and Best Contemporary Experimental Short Award at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. Okahara also makes art books: his 100×70cm gigantic photo art book and 10m scroll book were shown as part of the PHOTOBOOK – Art Page by Page exhibition at Leipzig’s Grassi Museum. Okahara is represented by the POLKA gallery in Paris and the Only Photography gallery in Berlin.
