Photographer portrait

Photographer

Haruki Mizuno

水野春樹

Light, shadow, and the fleeting world.

My work explores the liminal spaces between moments — the fraction of a second before something changes. Trained in Tokyo and based across Asia, I work with available light and long silences to find the photograph that was always waiting to be taken.

Base: Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition History

Selected Exhibitions

Group and solo shows across Europe, Asia, and North America.

  • 2024 Light Archive: Solo Exhibition Gallery Kaido, Tokyo
  • 2023 New Japanese Photography Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
  • 2022 Asia Now Paris Photo, Grand Palais
  • 2021 Floating World Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
  • 2020 Ma — Intervals Kyoto City University of Arts

Process

Behind the image

Camera equipment setup
Darkroom printing process
Contact sheets review

Each image begins before the camera is raised. Scouting a location weeks in advance, returning at different times of day, waiting for the quality of light that turns a place into a photograph — this patience is the practice.

Available for

  • Commercial photography
  • Editorial assignments
  • Print sales & licensing
  • Exhibition loans
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