There is a version of you that exists only in other people's eyes.

The way your face changes when you laugh without thinking. The quiet authority you carry without knowing it. The tenderness in your hands when you hold the people you love.

I have been photographing people for over a decade, and I have never once met someone who was not worth being seen.

My name is Mayumi. I left a career in science to devote my life to the precise, irreversible moment when someone looks at a photograph of themselves and recognizes, perhaps for the first time, exactly who they are.

This is what I do. I make the invisible, visible.