Akira Seo was born in Tokyo, Japan. After worked as a director for a satellite broadcasting station for about 4 years in Japan, he moved to the U.S.A. in 1997. He graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography in masters program in 2002.
His fascination with art was cultivated from a young age as he grew up in a family of artists, and it was continue to grow through out his work as a director in Japan and as a portrait photographer in California and Hawaii.