In 1998, then-Tokyo-based ELLE Japon magazine designer Nahoko Spiess had a dream: to move to Paris and become a fashion photographer.
Easier said than done, of course, but a creative combined with a clear under-standing of the fashion market, gave Spiess the confidence that she could get behind the camera to create fashion spreads rather than designing features with other photographers’ imagery.
To learn the craft of photography, she took a pay cut and joined the ELLE studio in Paris as an assistant.
By the turn of the millennium, she had the first of countless covers with her own photo credit.
In her adopted home of Paris, Spiess continue to make the City of Light, La Ville de la Lumière, the indisputable capital of couture.
———Text written by Mark Edward-Harris, Interview feature for Digital Photo Pro magazine.
Her style is soft, romantic, sensitive and feminine, as she always seeks good lighting that express the beauty of an ephemeral dream.
Today, she is currently based in Japan and travels regularly to France.
