PHOTOGRAPHY

Mischa is a brand designer and photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. He is also known as a Russianist.

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He was born into a family that has produced many intellectuals and artists since the Heian period, such as Kiyohara no Fukayabu,  Sei Shonagon and Hirano Nagayasu, whose ancestor was the 40th  Emperor Tenmu. His grandfather was a Prime Minister Prize-winning artist, his aunt, Mayumi Hattori was a copperplate artist, a Yokomizo Prize-winning and a Naoki Prize candidate writer.

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He is no exception, and his artistic talent developed since childhood. When his painting was accepted for the World Competition at the age of 11, he was expected to become an artist, but he chose a different future.

 

However, when he found street photography during his university days in Moscow, he began roaming the streets, photographing the daily lives of Muscovites, the post-Soviet turmoil, and the perseverance of the Russian people. 

 

After returning to Japan, he took a break from photography for a while, but when he picked up a camera again, he won numerous prizes in photography contests and was used in media such as book covers.

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He grew up in the city of the traditional art of Awa Odori dancing, which he continued to photograph as a photo project and was also the official photographer for various groups and associations.

 

Mischa thinks that photography is a method of painting, an artistic medium of light, shadow, colour, and reflecting the mind of the artist. Strongly influenced by Russian art, his works are very orthodox style and surprisingly sharp, focusing on the scenery in front of the lens and people's emotions, sometimes joyful, sometimes beautiful, sometimes sadly..., he puts in pictures as writers put in words.

 

He is probably the first Japanese photographer whose work has been published in the Russian orthodox church magazine FOMA.
 

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Speaks Japanese, English and Russian
MA (Moscow State Linguistic University)

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