Profile

.   Jimmy Ming Shum is a Hong Kong–born photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo. His work focuses on human presence, environment, and the quiet relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit.

   He studied fine art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, Pratt Institute in New York, and Parsons School of Design, where his education shaped a practice rooted in observation, materiality, and visual storytelling. His works were collected by Kiyosato museum of photographic arts, Japan and Hong Kong heritage museum.

   Working across film and digital photography, Jimmy approaches image-making with patience and restraint, valuing presence over spectacle. His photographs often explore moments where familiarity meets distance—images that quietly hold traces of time, memory, and emotion.

   Alongside his photographic work, he directs narrative films that have screened at Tokyo international film festival, Hawaii international film festival and others . Across both mediums, his work is guided by a belief that how we see the world shapes how we understand it