BIO

Mio Akashi is a photographic artist whose work explores esthetic values beyond the boundary of subjects, place and time. She uses photographs to create visual work focusing on her surroundings such as nature and architecture.

She moved to New York in 1986 after having a career as a book editor and translator in Tokyo pursuing visual communications beyond language limitations.  After receiving a BFA in Interior Design and Fine Arts from F.I.T (State University of New York) she started practicing interior design as well as writing articles of interior and architecture for Japanese design magazines. This experience opened her passage to photography.

She learned technical and historical studies at the International Center of Photography in New York as a student of continuing education from the early 2000’s and started including her photographs with magazine articles.

Having a secondary residence in northwest Connecticut gave an opportunity to develop rural landscape and nature from the early 2010’s. She started showing her work at local libraries, group exhibitions and gallery shows. Her work is featured by Holly Hunt in multiple showrooms nationwide, displayed in building lobbies, acquired by architects and private collectors.

Currently she expands her practice in wider disciplines combining multi processes including historical processes such as Platinum Palladium, Cyanotypes as long as gilded work with metal leaves.

She uses the camera to reinterpret common elements of life in ways to let the viewer experience it in a whole new way.