Westboy (Makoto Nishikura) is a freelance seeker, phenomenologist and photographer.
He is based in Ichikawa, Japan. He formally studied sociology, social psychology and  phenomenology. After many years experience in a major IT company as a marketing specialist, he decided to work as a freelancer. Now he is studying AI and philosophy, also pursuing the essence of photography by phenomenological approach.

Award/Editors’ choice

• SONY World Photographer Award 2018 Commended
• 500PX Editors’ Choice three times

Photo Community/Social media links:

• Instagram:
  instagram.com/nishikura24/ (Main)
  instagram.com/westboy_96/ (Portrait)
• Tumblr:  westboycats.tumblr.com/
• Twitter: twitter.com/nishikura
• 500PX: 500px.com/westboy96    &    500px.com/westboy24
• 1x : 1x.com/member/nishikura