Shiho Fukada (深田 志穂, Fukada Shiho) is a Japanese photojournalist based between New York and Japan. Her clientele consists of The New York Times, MSNBC, Le Monde, Stern and the New York magazine, among others.[1][2] She won the Grand Prize in Editor and Publisher Magazine’s Ninth Annual Photos of the Year contest in 2008.[3] Fukada also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship [4] in 2010 to research and photograph Japan's disposable workers.
Fukada majored in English literature and first worked in fashion advertising as an account executive. She borrowed a 35 mm SLR camera and started making photos.[5]