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Clients Include

Advertising

Japan

• amana inc.
• BEAMS Co., Ltd.
• BLUE NOTE JAPAN,INC.
• Canon Inc.
• Coca-Cola (Japan) Company, Limited
• Four Seasons Hotel Marunouchi Tokyo
• HIBIYA-KADAN
• ISETAN MITSUKOSHI HOLDINGS
• JOAQUIN BERAO JAPAN
• K.MIKIMOTO&CO., LTD
• Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
• MARUI Co., Ltd.
• Mazda Motor Corporation
• Mitsui Home Co.,Ltd.
• Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
• Noevier Co., Ltd
• ONWARD KASHIYAMA Co.,Ltd.
• Otsuka Kagu, Ltd.
• Park Hyatt Tokyo
• POLA
• SEIKO WATCH CORPORATION
• Shiseido Company, Limited
• Smiles Co., Ltd.
• STAR JEWELRY CO., LTD.
• TOMORROWLAND Co., Ltd.
• TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
• WARNER MUSIC JAPAN Inc.

Europe

• Cartier (France)
• Chanel (France)
• GIVENCHY (LVMH, France)
• KENZO (LVMH, France)
• Groupe Alain Ducasse (France)

Publications

Japan

• Casa BRUTUS (Magazine House, LTD.)
• DEPARTURES JAPAN (Esquire Magazine Japan)
• Domani (Shogakukan Inc.)
• ELLE a table (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• ELLE DECO (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• Esquire Japan (Esquire Magazine Japan)
• FIGARO JAPAN (Hankyu Communications Co., Ltd.)
• Forbes Japon (linktimes Co., Ltd.)
• Fujingaho (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• GQ (Conde Nast Publications, Japan)
• HARPER’S BAZAAR Japan (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• marie claire japon (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• MEN’S CLUB (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• NUMBER (Bungeishunju, Ltd.)
• Oggi (Shogakukan Inc.)
• Precious (Shogakukan Inc.)
• Richesse (HEARST FUJINGAHO)
• SIGNATURE (Diners Club INTERNATIONAL)
• SKYWARD (JAPAN AIRLINES)
• STUDIO VOICE (INFAS PUBLICATIONS)
• T JAPAN (SHUEISHA Inc.)
• VOGUE NIPPON (Conde Nast Publications, Japan)
• waraku (Shogakukan Inc.)

USA

• DEPARTURES(Meredith Corporation)
• FOOD & WINE (Meredith Corporation)
• FORTUNE (Fortune Media IP Limited)
• Gourmet (Condé Nast)
• GQ (Condé Nast)
• Institutional Investor (Institutional Investor,Inc.)
• JWM MAGAZINE (JW MARRIOTT HOTELS)
• MO (Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group)
• New York Magazine (New York Media LLC)
• The Ritz-Carlton Magazine (The Ritz-Carlton)
• T Magazine (The New York Times)
• TIME (Meredith Corporation)
• TRAVEL+LEISURE (Meredith Corporation)
• VANITY FAIR (Condé Nast)
• VIRTUOSO LIFE (Virtuoso Inc.)
• WSJ.MAGAZINE (Dow Jones&Company)
• W magazine (Condé Nast)

Europe

• Conde Nast TRAVELLER (Condé Nast, UK)
• ELLE DECORATION (Hachette Filipacchi Medias, France)
• FT Weekend (THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD)
• FOUR SEASONS MAGAZINE (Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts)
• HIGH LIFE (Pegasus House, UK)
• LIV (Volvo Car Corporation)
• MO (Condé Nast, UK)
• TASCHEN GmbH (Germany)
• Telegraph Magazine (Telegraph Group limited, UK)
• ZOOM-ZOOM (Mazda Moter Corporation)

Asia/Oceania

• AUSTRALIAN GOURMET TRAVELLER (nimemsn Pty Ltd, AU)
• Conde Nast TRAVELLER (Condé Nast, India)
• Conde Nast TRAVELLER (Condé Nast, China)
• DestinAsian (DestinAsian Communications Ltd., Indonesia)
• ELLE DECORATION CHINA (Hachette Filipacchi Medias,)
• SilverKris (Singapore Airlines)
• TRAVEL+LEISURE (John Fairfax Publications, AU)

In 1985, after he graduated from Tokyo Zokei University of Art, Tetsuya Miura started his career as a professional photographer at Nippon Design Center, Tokyo. For three years at the company, he worked intensively in advertising photography for TOYOTA, ISETAN, and other major Japanese companies.

In 1988, he became a full-time freelance photographer and continued to work in advertising. In this time, he explored imaginative photography and a new generation of pictorialism. In the same year, “03“, a Japanese “trans-culture” magazine, featured him and his works as one of the “Children in the New Age of Image“.

In 1991 after several months traveling through the Mideast, Africa, and Europe, he decided to move to Paris. While he worked in advertising photography for Cartier, his creative focus started to engage with a new realm of portraiture. He started a series of portraits of various artists who lived and worked in Paris and Aix en Province where he moved in 1992. The project continued throughout his three-year stay in France, and culminated in an invitation to exhibit the work at Montpellier in a show entitled “Faits Semblants”. During his stay in Aix en Province, he traveled around Europe photographing people and landscapes in urban and rural areas, and participated in photographer Robert Frank’s workshop.

Back in Japan in 1994, he began to contribute his portrait, fashion, and advertising photographs to various magazines and clients such as “NUMBER“, “WWD for Japan“, SEIKO, and PONYCANYON. His work increasingly appeared in architecture and interior design magazines, including “ELLE DECO Japan“, and he was introduced as “an epochal photographer in the next generation” in a Japanese photo magazine, “COMMERCHAL PHOTO“.

Three years after returning to Tokyo, another realm of his photographic career opened through new clients and the assignments, including “Esquire Japan“, “marie claire japon“, “Domani” and “gap“, which made him a world traveler. In the following years, the genre of travel photography became one of his main working fields.

For the first assignment from “TRAVEL+LEISURE” magazine in 1999, he photographed historic and realistic scenes of Japan for Arthur Golden’s feature story, “Seeing Japan with the Man Behind Memoirs of a Geisha“. Those photographs caught the attention of foreign clients in US and Europe: he started contributing to French “ELLE Decoration“, as well as “TRAVEL+LEISURE” continuously, and Japanese magazines such as “Casa BRUTUS“, “waraku“, and “STUDIO VOICE“.

In 2002, he undertook several assignments for feature stories in magazines, including for “marie claire japon“, “VOGUE NIPPON“, and “GQ“. His portrait of Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of RENAULT and NISSAN Motors and one of the most popular figures in Japanese business, appeared on the cover of “FORTUNE” magazine.

In 2003, he performed various location shootings, photographing the architecture of Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka for “Casa BRUTUS”, the experimental town Arcosanti in Arizona and Spanish Parador for “Esquire Japan“. The following years, he photographed artists and architecture in Bangkok for “Esquire Japan“, and a painter Vermeer’s hometown Delft for “HARPER’S BAZAAR Japan“, and several other shootings for “TRAVEL+LEISURE“.

His travel and photographic assignments continued in 2005. He traveled Australia and photographed for “FIGARO Japon“, and Cote d’Azur to Basque Country for the special feature in “Esquire Japan“. Besides the magazine’s assignment, he was requested to photograph a portrait of Alain Ducasse on his visit to Japan, who is regarded as one of the most prominent French chefs.

His solo exhibition was held at Laune Cafe in Tokyo for a month and exhibited his work in a theme of “time”, which included personal works.

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