Born 1989 in Shizuoka, Komori Haruka received her master’s degree from the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts. She has also completed an elementary course in fiction at the Film School of Tokyo. Her experience as a volunteer in the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 led her to form an artistic unit together with artist and writer Seo Natsumi. In 2012 she moved to the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate, where she has recorded people’s stories and lives, as well as the local scenery, in visual form. Komori has been based in Niigata since 2022. She is a member of the general incorporated association NOOK. Her major works include Trace of Breath (2016), Listening to the Air (2018), Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (2019, co-directed with Seo Natsumi), and Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today (2023).