Born in 1975 in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University Department of Photography. After finishing school, he began his career as a photographer. During his 20s, he grappled with experimental photography, like using large-sized cameras, shooting for fashion and culture magazines. Then on, he became highly recognized as a fashion photographer and collaborated with multipe fashion magazines while also shooting campaigns for brands such as “Hermes” “VALENTINO” “UNDERCOVER” “HYKE” “UNIQLO” and “Supreme”.
He now works in various fields including fashion, music, and advertisement.

Alongside fashion photography, he also works on his personal series and directs his exhibitions.
2012 Published Here Comes The Blues which captures the perennial ice pool on the Alaskan glacier.
2013 Opened the group exhibition “Ryuko Shashin” with 3 other fashion photographers.
2015 Showed his “STILLSCAPE” series he created with the art director, Tetsuya Nagato, in Tokyo, Fukuoka and KYOTOGRAPHIE 2017 as a satellite exhibition.
2016 Planned and produced the “Contact Prints” exhibition of 31 photographers organized by the photo printing lab TCK at the art fair “ART PHOTO TOKYO -edition zero-”.
2017 Published Chaos / Balance which records UNDERCOVER’s Paris Collection backstage over 5 seasons.
2019 Participated in the exhibition “LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW” with Jiro Konami and Masumi Ishida, aimed to show the fashion works of these 3 photographers of different generation.
2019 Released Lethe, a collection of images of nature seen through the car window in Oregon.

In the recent years, he also works as the creative production team UNDERCOVER PRODUCTION with the UNDERCOVER designer, Jun Takahashi and art director, Tetsuya Nagato and photographer, Katsuhide Morimoto.