Secret Garden (Noir) 107, 2011
"The flower’s life is a metaphor that reflects on the fleetingness of human life. Our existence is one of impermanence and as beings in a universe we are so fragile. Like a delicate blossom, we live to our fullest, knowing all along that gradually we too fade away." - Yumiko Izu
Yumiko is a recipient of the 2007 Photographers' Fellowship from the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Work from her series Secret Garden has been featured in Ralph Lauren’s stores internationally.
Since 2011, Yumiko has been working on a still life series of animal skulls using an 11x 14 camera. Studying the interplay of life and death, which has long abandoned these relics, Yumiko will show the work in Tokyo, Japan, in late 2013.
Yumiko currently lives and works in Rhinebeck, New York.