I’m living near the Maruyama Park in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, Japan’s beautiful northern Island. I studied photography and anthropology in Germany after graduating from high school.

After my rather boring and unsatisfying time at two universities I started a carpentry shop. Without any regular training, I was more or less self-taught, learning different styles and approaches to carpentry from various carpenters. Above all, however, I was fascinated by Japanese woodwork, their refined artistry and this passion was evident in almost every one of my works.

I lived in some of Osho’s communes for several years, where I learned about the significance of meditation and a lot of garbage accumulated in my life by and by dropped off. At a certain point it became time to give up my carpentry business and, fascinated by the emerging possibilities of using computers in the early 1990s for graphic design, I changed direction again and became responsible for the layout of a news magazine, where I remained for about 10 years. Since then, I have been working as a freelance photographer and graphic designer.

In 2010, I started the Meera Art Print Project, traveling around the world capturing Meera Hashimoto’s paintings and making state-of-the-art prints of her paintings. My digital archive now includes almost two thousand paintings and covers a large part of her entire oeuvre.