Mieko Shiomi (汐見 美枝子, Shiomi Mieko, Osaka, 1909 – 24 August 1984)[1] was a Japanese amateur photographer in Shōwa era Japan.
Shiomi was born in Osaka, and graduated from Shimizudani Girls' High School in 1927 (Shōwa 2).
At the start she tended to abstraction; in the late 1950s she moved toward realism in depicting what she saw in her daily life; in the 1960s she moved back to abstraction.
Shiomi is particularly highly praised[2] for her compositions and delicate use of monochrome, and capture moments of people's usual actions.
[3] Shiomi's works are held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.