Mikiko Hara

, born in Toyama in 1967, is a Japanese photographer.
Hara graduated from Keio University in 1990 with a degree in literature, and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996.
Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident, . . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere."
Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes
Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women.