Jordy Meow

Jordy Meow was born in 1982 in Arcachon, a few kilometers away from Bordeaux in France. Then he lived in Paris and China where he studied software engineering. He eventually moved to Tokyo in 2008 to pursue an engineering career and started to work on his photography seriously.

His pursuits have led him to make several trips to the abandoned island of Gunkanjima and even one brief visit to North Korea. Saddened by the atmosphere he was seeing in most photos of haikyo at that time, he felt compelled to share his own which were charged-up with the feelings he experienced while exploring those places. He made haikyo (abandoned places in Japan) his first serious photography project.

Today, he continues to spend most of his free time in search of offbeat and beautiful landscapes and runs projects related to photography and software engineering. On sunny week-days, you can usually find Jordy daydreaming in the park, listening to the wind, and taking pictures of cats. He keeps his updated portfolio on http://www.meow.fr.