PHOTOGRAPHER MIYA MIZUNO

MIYA MIZUNO✦ TOKYO / LONDON✦ ANTAKLY PROJECTS✦ PORTRAIT · DOCUMENTARY · STREET✦ 宮水野✦ PROMO SHOT: SETH TROXLER✦ MIYA MIZUNO✦ TOKYO / LONDON✦ ANTAKLY PROJECTS✦ PORTRAIT · DOCUMENTARY · STREET✦ 宮水野✦ PROMO SHOT: SETH TROXLER✦

ANTAKLY.PROJECTS Photographer Profile · 2024

宮水野写真

Featured Photographer

MIYA MIZUNO

東京 / London

Born in Shibuya, Tokyo to a Japanese father and an Argentinian-English mother. Raised in England from age 4. Now back in Tokyo — teaching English, absorbing culture, and turning a lifelong passion into a photography career.

Promo shot: Seth Troxler  ·  Photography: Miya Mizuno @miyamizunophotography

Born Shibuya, Tokyo

Raised England, from age 4

Now Tokyo (returned Sept)

Day Job Teaching English

Practice Portrait · Street · Doc

Status Comfort zone — exited

INFLUENCES

01

Gregory Crewdson

His cinematic 'Twilight' series and theatrical command of light are a constant source of inspiration — the tension between the ordinary and the quietly uncanny.

02

Garry Winogrand

Candid documentary street work — showing America in the 50s and 60s in a completely unique way. The camera as pure witness.

03

Rinko Kawauchi

A photography style that is very gentle. Colour, composition, and simplicity — all depicted beautifully. A quietness that says everything.

04

Christian Als

3rd prize Best Photojournalism 2009. Als went to China and photographed coal miners in 2008 — the kind of work that directly shapes Miya's own dream shoots.

LIFE IS SHORT.
TAKE THE RISK.
DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.

— Miya Mizuno

DREAM
SHOOTS

🇨🇳

Rural China — Northwest & West

China's cities expand at breakneck speed, yet over half the population still lives in rural society. Miya wants to document the vast gap between fastest-growing and ancient-standing.

🌲

Yakushima — The Sacred Forest

The ancient forest that inspired Princess Mononoke. Trees thousands of years old. A Crewdson-style light shoot in amongst them — with her father as model. Her very own wizard look-alike.

🏛️

7 Wonders + World Heritage

Photography and travel — but not travel photography. Personal projects woven into movement. A tiny lightbox. Cambodia as the starting point.

"My dream shoot would be to travel back in time to the 1950s–70s and work alongside Richard Avedon. He is one of my favourite portrait photographers of all time."

— Miya Mizuno

PUBLICATIONS

125 Magazine

Miya's favourite publication for non-commercial photographers — established and emerging. Every issue shows genuine individuality across photography, art, and fashion. Rankin's 'America' shoot in issue 15 is a standout favourite.

Artist to Watch

Miya names Dominic Clarke as the up-and-coming creative she wants the world to know about. Trust her radar.

I BELIEVE —

• Conspiracy

  I don't believe that man went to the Moon. I like conspiracy theories.

• True

  I believe in aliens.

• False

  I do not believe in parallel universes.

• False

  I don't believe in God, nor a higher supreme being.

• True

  Life is all about experience. Take certain risks — because life is short and you only live once.

• Former

  I used to want to be a scientist.

FIND
MIYA

📷 @miyamizunophotography ↗ 🌐 Miya Mizuno Stills ↗

Artist to Watch

Dominic Clarke

Miya's personal recommendation — an up-and-coming creative she wants the world to know about. Remember the name.

宮水野

Tokyo · London · Everywhere

MIYA MIZUNO

Instagram ↗ Miya Mizuno Stills ↗

Antakly Projects Photographer Profile · Miya Mizuno