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Zen Sekizawa is a Los Angeles-based photographer, director, and multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses the liminal space between the documentary and the dreamlike. A second-generation Angeleno and fourth-generation Japanese American, her practice lives at the intersection of art, politics, and community care—where the work transforms the ordinary into the strange, making everyday moments feel uncanny, blending reality with surrealism.

Since earning her BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design in 1999, Zen has cultivated a body of work that embraces both clarity and abstraction. Her storytelling spans mediums—from editorial and fine art to film and collaborative design—often blending visual realism with gestures of the surreal. Her projects include the art book You and I See Why (Hesse Press), the sculptural design collective Mano Ya (with artist Mario Correa), and visual creative direction for Chef Niki Nakayama of the famed Michelin-starred n/naka, where visual poetry and culinary precision meet.

Currently, Zen is in production on her first feature-length documentary, a layered, poetically chaotic portrait of The Atomic Cafe, her family’s legendary punk-era haunt in downtown L.A. The film captures not just history, but an atmosphere—part archive, part hallucination, part call to action—redefining what punk means through the generations of her family.

Zen is also an organizer with J-Town Action and Solidarity, and works closely with other local organizations like We the Unhoused and Chinatown Community for Equitable Development to promote community care.

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