Artists

Mika Ninagawa

Press release

Discover works from NINAGAWA Mika’s Captive Blooms in a free outdoor exhibition in Soho Photography Quarter just outside the Gallery on Ramillies Street. “With the world going through all these momentous changes, we’ve experienced how humble, yet precious, even miraculous, this reality is in the everyday, so fragile like sand escaping through our fingers.” — NINAGAWA Mika NINAGAWA Mika builds worlds bursting with colour and emotion. Her photographs of blooming flowers, shimmering goldfish, water, city nights and portraits dissolve the boundary between the real and the imagined. NINAGAWA creates a fluid, dream-like universe brimming with expressionist, intensely-coloured images of domesticated aquatic life and captures the fleeting beauty of the springtime cherry blossom in Japan, a subject that has become one of the artist's most recognisable motifs. Bridging art, fashion and pop culture, NINAGAWA’s photographs transform Soho Photography Quarter into a place of both spectacle and reflection. See more of NINAGAWA’s photographs in our Summer exhibition, Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now, on show at The Photographers’ Gallery from 24 June until 27 September 2026.