HS: Is balancing of personal and commissioned work hard for you?
Nitta: It is a lot of work to do both jobs, but I am trying my best to make it work.
HS: Do you try and separate subject matter so as to keep your slate clean?
Nitta: Yes, I keep them totally separate. When working for a client I am usually doing a fashion story, and for my own work, it can go any which way.
HS: Tell me about Bowery Boys?
Nitta: Bowery Boys is a book about my friends who live in NYC around Bowery, and O.H.W.O.W is a great book publisher who publish art books of edgy and new artists. They approached me to put out a book and we made it happen.
HS: Putting together books and exhibitions, do you view them differently, are there challenges inherently different in each?
Nitta: Putting on an exhibition is definitely much harder than doing a book. All the preparations, like printing the images, editing work, hanging the photographs, etc... is a lot of work. A book is also a lot of work, but usually there is an art director who can take care of a lot of things, which makes it easier for me.
