Elina Moriya is an award winning Finnish-Japanese creative photographer and visual artist based in London. She was born in Japan to a Japanese father and Finnish mother. At the age of 6, she moved to Finland where she lived until adulthood. She loves Japan (especially J-pop music) and lived in Japan for about a year from July 2001 and worked as a trainee for a culture institute in Tokyo until the end of Dec. 2001. She also worked as a freelance photographer. She is now back in Helsinki running her own company working as a commercial photographer but visit Japan regularly for work projects.
