About Your Photographer

Emiko Mizumoto is an award-winning and certified professional photographer of PPA (Professional Photography of America). She specifies Pets and Family portraits. She believes that pets make people happier and bring more joy to them.  She has two miniature Dachshunds, named KAB and Bella, to prove it!  They are furry bundles of love, loyalty, and boundless joy. They also teach her incredible life lessons every day.

She started to take photographs when she was a young girl. As she grew up, cameras were always available to her.  When she got her first dog, KAB, as an adult, she started documenting his life through photographs.

KAB got a serious illness, cancer when he was 7-year-old. Emiko began to photograph him with more intention and purpose as a way to preserve memories of him through a visual medium. She started to wonder if other pet owners were thinking the same way. So that is how she started to take photographs of other pets and their human companions.  The bond between pets and their owners is one of unconditional love.  Emiko captures the soul and essence of this bond in her photography!

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Awards

2016: Winner on OC (Orange County) Fair Visual Art Pet Photography division

2016: Honorable Mention Winner on Tokyo International Foto Awards

2019: Three Merits Collections at PPA (Professional Photographer of America)

2019: Earned CPP (Certified Professional Photographer)

2020: Silver and Bronze awards at Rise international Photography Award.

2020: Two Merits Collections at PPA

2021: Two Merits Awards at PPNC (Professional Photographer of North Carolina)

2021: Four Merits Awards at Animal Image Makers 

2021: Earned Bronze Medal at PPA 

2022: Three Merits at PPNC (Professional Photographer of North Carolina)

2022: Four Merits Award at Animal Image Makers

2022: Earned Accredited Professional of Animal Imagery