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Name Mayumi Hirata
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Portrait / documentary photographer

After graduated Kansai Women’s art college in 1990, self taught photography and started photographing Osaka punk bands for Alchemy Record. Moved to the “rock city” London in 1991, worked in a Japanese publisher. Worked as an editor and photographer for several magazines including Figaro Japan, Globe Trotter. Finished a BA photography degree at University of Westminster in 2011. Since then she set up her studio and photographing musicians, family and Japanese Kimono related photo-shoot.

Shows
Participated in 11 group shows since 2008 In 2012, published “Dance Tiger Dance” capturing the Tiger Dancers who survived from the great Tsunami disaster in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. In 2014 Exhibition with Horiren First in London and in Luxemburg

Magazines and artists
Figaro Japon, Casa Brutus, anan, British Airways magazine British Sea Power, Boredoms, Kodo

WebSite http://www.mayumihirata.com/ http://mayumifotostudio.zenfolio.com/