Yoshinori Mizutani is a graduate of the Tokyo College of Photography. His work has been recognized by LensCulture’s Emerging Talents Awards and Foam Magazine’s Talent Call. His solo exhibitions have been displayed in Tokyo, Antwerp, Zurich, Beijing, and London. His monographs include Colors (Amana, 2015) and Tokyo Parrots (Amana, 2014) and his graphical work has been featured in Issey Miyake’s 2016 collection. He lives and works in Tokyo.
Tokyo is a photographer’s dream, a city overflowing with potent imagery. But this sensory input can also be overpowering, making it tough to find a single focus. Photographer Yoshinori Mizutani, though, knew he found a great new subject when he noticed bright, greenish-yellow birds zipping past his house, perching in a large zelkova tree just a stone’s throw away. Not long after that, he spotted a large roost of them on the campus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology—hundreds and hundreds of them banding together. The birds turned out to be rose-ringed parakeets, a nonnative type of parrot that had been imported to Japan over the years as pets, many of which had either escaped or been released and were now thriving in the dense urban environment of the city.
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