Mikiko Hara (原 美樹子, Hara Mikiko), 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