Rie Yamada also known by her friends as Inddy, is a 27 years old Japan­ese pho­to­grapher. She left her homet­own Nagoya in Japan, to settle in Ber­lin in Octo­ber 2011.

Why Ber­lin?

In 2008 I made a trip to Europe and vis­ited above oth­ers Paris, Ber­lin, Lon­don and Bar­celona. Those cit­ies were won­der­ful but it’s with the Ger­man cap­ital that I fell in love with! I could already back then ima­gine my future here, a peace­full daily life with a lot of pos­sib­il­it­ies. As I’m inter­ested in Art and Design, Ber­lin is per­fect for me! The city is full of artists, design­ers, gal­ler­ies, museums and other insti­tu­tions, there is always some­thing to discover. Above that I was already inter­ested in the Ger­man lan­guage and cul­ture, I even took some Ger­man les­sons at that time.

How does your daily life in Ber­lin look like?

Soon after I arrived in town I star­ted being a stu­dent in a lan­guage school, I’m still going there five days a week and try to improve my Ger­man skills every­day. Daily, I play gui­tare and take a lot of pho­to­graphes for myself or for some Japan­ese papers I work for as a cor­res­pond­ante from time to time. I’m also every day on the road to dis­cover Ber­lin with my Japan­ese Nishiki bike, I like to visit exhib­i­tions, watch movies with my friends, or meet them and cook diner together.

What are you favor­ites things about Berlin?

When I was liv­ing and work­ing in Tokyo I couldn’t really relax, everything was going super fast all the time, here in Ber­lin I’m calm and my life is not stress­full. I also meet a lot of people from other coun­tries, what didn’t hap­pen that often in Japan. And as I said there is alot of room for cre­ativ­ity. You can always visit an exhib­i­tion or watch a movie. And there are also a lot of good partys!

Where in Ber­lin do you live & which are your favor­ite places?

I live in Kreuzberg. Close to my apart­ment there is the Kaf­fe­Bar Jen­seits where I like to go for a café while learn­ing Ger­man. I also love to take a walk though the Turk­ish Mar­ket, and my favor­ite place is definetly Tempelhof.

Do you feel homesick?Can you ima­gine your future in Berlin? 

Of course I can! I really want to stay in Ber­lin and built my life here. The city became my second home­land and I already have some plans! In a near future, I would like to study visual com­mu­nic­a­tion at the UdK to com­plete the stud­ies in pho­to­graphy I made in Japan.

And no, I’m abso­lutly not home­sick, once a week I speak with my fam­ily on Skype, this way I don’t miss them too much.

Do you think that Ber­lin is a mul­ti­cul­tural city?

Yes! I’m happy to have friends from France, Den­mark, Italy, Spain, U.S.A., Japan, South Korea, Brasil…

Thank you Rie!

http://​www​.rieya​mada​.com/