Secret Garden (Noir) 107, 2011
"The flower beings—fluttering, leaning and twisting in motion with a myriad of feelings—they are partaking in the “Dance of Life”. In darkness, there is light; sorrow, joy and death, life. In nothingness, there is everything. Beauty can be found in every stage of a fleeting life cycle: as that of a bud, full bloom or even as a withering flower." - Yumiko Izu
Yumiko Izu studied at the Visual Arts School in Osaka, Japan, her hometown. After moving to the United States, she studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, where she received a B.A. degree. In 1998, Yumiko moved to New York City and started working on various assignments in advertising and editorial photography.
In 2003, she began her professional career in fine art photography, using the platinum-palladium printing process and an 8 x 10 camera. In 2008, she started producing large-scale pigment prints.