Alter Ego

As an only child growing up in Japan, Izumi Miyazaki often let her imagination roam free. What began as simple snapshots of herself, have in time become refined pieces of art, carefully planned down to every last detail. With her signature bob haircut, Izumi Miyazaki pops up everywhere in her photos; floating, split in half, and multiplied in settings that should all look familiar, but that have been transfigured by her surrealistic, grotesque and ironically humorous outlook. Miyazaki’s focus on the self is at the same time a satirical take on her own selfie obsessed SNS generation as well as an evolution of the longstanding photographic genre of self-portraiture.