Highly recognized as a commercial photographer in Japan, Izima started to produce personal photographic artwork since 1980s. He became widely known with "Landscapes with a Corpse" series and the series has been exhibited in a numerous exhibitions in the countries such as Germany, the UK, Italy and the USA since the early 90s. Also in Japan, one of the images from the series was used as a main visual of "Carpe Diem -seize the day-" held at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, the group exhibition recorded 20,000 visitors in March 2012.