Niko Mitrunen was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1982 and developed a passionate interest in photography around the age of 18 and started assisting photographers in Helsinki.

However he quickly decided the photography market in finland was just too small and moved to London, where he continued to assist and do retouching work for the next 5 years. he has worked with dozens of Londons leading fashion, advertising and music photographers including Julian Broad, Ben Dunbar-Brunton, Kai Z Feng, Rick Guest, Elisabeth Hoff on shoots for publications such as British and Chinese Vogue, Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times.

He has finally found the time to start shooting for himself and got his own studio in east London and is concentrating his work into shooting fashion and music.