Discover Top Editorial Photographers / Photojournalists in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Irene Herrera, PhD(c) is a roving Cuban-Venezuelan documentary filmmaker. Among her non-fiction works are Kodo wa Awaseba (Gran Prix Expo Aichi Film Fest); Gaijin no Honne (2004); You Can Call Me Nikkie (2008); Women in Refugee: Stories from a Border (2009); Crossing Hispaniola (2010); Spirits to Enlightenment (2012-HotDocs) and Cracked Foundations a 28-min. documentary broadcasted on NHK World. Irene has also been an active producer and director for the Lebanon and Japan chapters of the Global Lives Project. In 2008 she was a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and in 2009 a Resident Professional at the Knight Center for International Media. Her journalistic work has been published by The Japan Times, AFP, Al Jazeera Plus, CNNE, Globovision, MSNBC.com, Discovery Digital, NHK World, LinkTV, Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS Newshour. She has traveled to over 60 countries and gets by in 5 languages. For published content: https://ireneherrera.contently.com

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Audio Storyteller
• Sound Mixer
• Drone Operator

My name is Yann Moreau, i work in Japan since 15 years as professional Director / video cameraman / editor and photographer for many high end clients - Japanese or International : CNN, Mini Cooper, ESPN, Dell, Esquire, ELLE, Condenast/Vogue company; NHK world, Arte Tv Channel (France - Germany), Tv 9 (spain), JapanToday, GaijinPot, musicians, documentaries, ... Since 8 months, i am also able to shoot with my 4K camera (and Full HD of course). As video cameraman or editor: For example, i was the Japanese cameraman/DP for the Kyoto part of this documentary, in HITACHI laboratory (for Arte TV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FswaVKoSKB8 You can see also my editing for NHK World there : Nhk World - J Design show, for exemple : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcr00yMEjM I also worked for Vogue Italy (Behind the Scene video for Ellen Von Unwerth Shooting) and Vogue Japan (shooting of the official Vogue Ceremony "Women of the Year").

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

Noriko Hayashi is a Japanese documentary photographer based in Tokyo. She is represented by Panos Pictures. Noriko began taking pictures for a local newspaper "The Point" in Gambia, West Africa, when she was still a university student in International Relations. Her work has been recognized with awards including the Visa d’Or feature award at the Visa Pour l'image festival in France in 2013, 1st Prize of NPPA Best of Photojournalism in Contemporary Issue Stories 2014. Her documentary work was finalist for the Alexia Foundation professional grant 2013 and for Amnesty International Media Awards 2014 and 2021. In 2015, she was selected to take part in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. Her works have been published internationally in outlets such as GRANTA, The New York Times, National Geographic, Stern, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Bloomberg Businessweek, Marie Claire UK and Newsweek among others.

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• Portrait Photographer

Luis Patron is a Japan-based TV and video producer, director, director of photography and editor. Luis and his team at Patron Productions GK work for clients like Discovery, Olympic Channel, CNN Digital, NHK (Japan), Canal+, Television Francaise 1, Paris Metropol TV, VPRO (The Netherlands), Swiss TV, Wall Street Journal Live, and Al Jazeera. He also works on branded content, commercial and corporate productions for ANA, Nissan, Honda, Japanese Football League, and Nike. He can work in English, Spanish, French and Japanese languages.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Corporate Videographer
• Fixer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Colorist
• Copywriter
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Translator
• Sound Mixer

Born in 1989, Miwaza is a bilingual Japanese award-winning photographer, videographer, designer, published painter, entrepreneur, and developer with +17yrs experience in Japan and +30 countries. Her mission in life is to pursue creativity in which to share with the world. She started her career first as a freelance photographer/entrepreneur when she was 14 years old and has been expanding her business ever since. She finds joy in connecting with humans through storytelling and the creation of creative content.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Translator
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Podcast Producer
• Content Strategist
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Post-Production Manager
• Colorist
• Senior Editor
• Sound Designer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Cameraman-editor, speaking French, Japanese and English. Based in Japan since 2016, I mainly work with francophone productions, french news media, international TVs and also with japanese clients. Having mastered at a cinema school in France, my strength is not only in video production related to news coverage, but also in a wide range of fields such as corporate PR video and movie production.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Reporter / Journalist

Androniki was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied photography in Athens and London. Following a successful career in Greece working on assignments for Greek magazines and later for the Athens Olympic Committee photographing the 2004 Athens Olympics, she moved to Tokyo in November 2004. Since then she works freelance on assignments for international magazines and newspapers such as The Times, The Independent and The Telegraph (UK), Der Spiegel, (Germany), Marie Claire (Australia), K-magazine (Greece), Businessweek (US), Transit, Sotokoto, Shukan Asahi (Japan) etc. and for corporate clients such as Apple Japan. She is interested in the human condition and approaches her subjects with respect and humor. She has been photographing many aspects of life in Japan that vary from everyday life, traditional culture, subcultures or current affairs. Since 2011 she has been working on video also, either for the online section of print media like The Sunday Times of Der Spiegel or for corporate clients like Airbnb and fashion brands.

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• Portrait Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer

Australian born Fine Art Photographer and Cinematographer based in Japan for over 10 years. Exploring the theme of Isolation, whether social, cultural, geographical, emotional or temporal.

• Drone Operator
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• Corporate Videographer
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Post-Production Manager
• Creative Director

Richard Atrero de Guzman is a Tokyo based freelance video journalist, producer/photographer, international correspondent for wire news agency. Completed work for New York Times, AJ+, Redfish and CNN's Great Big Story.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Sybilla Patrizia is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Tokyo. In her work, she merges her passion for social impact and human stories with her background in fashion to create thought-provoking stories that cross the border between documentary, art and design. Sybilla is currently developing her first feature-length documentary ‘PLASTIC LOVE!’, which deals with Japan’s toxic relationship with plastic and which was featured in HERMÈS’ Social Good Book. In 2022, she shot the cover of the Financial Times’ HTSI Magazine, featuring Japan’s best-selling author Mieko Kawakami and ‘The Dark Side of Manga’, a VICE short doc on child abuse in Japanese manga which won an Emmy in 2023. At Tokyo Docs 2023, ‘The Shape of Blue’ was awarded Best Pitch Award, Sunny Side of the Doc Award, and DocedgeKolkata Award.‘A Bloody Taboo’ about the stigma against menstruation in Japan, was awarded at Tokyo Docs and premiered at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2021.

• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Field Producer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Senior Editor
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

I am a documentary filmmaker based in Tokyo. I majored in comparative politics at Princeton University. My latest documentary film "Tomorrow We Will See" highlights how 10 artists in Lebanon challenge sectarian divides. This documentary has been shown in film festivals such as National Geographic All Roads Film Festival 2010 and will air on DR, a Danish television broadcasting station in May 2015. I have experience directing and producing finance news programs called Asia Biz Forecast NHK World. I directed a short documentary on a 69-year-old DJ for VICE Japan. I speak Japanese and English fluently. I can have basic conversations in Portuguese and Spanish.

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• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Born in 1988 in Aichi, Japan. After studying psychology at university, I worked in infectious disease control in the UK and South Africa. I then worked in corporate sales and IT development for a commercial bank before going freelance. Since the beginning of my career, I have worked both as a photographer and as a producer/fixer/translator/driver, and my strength lies in my ability to care for both the creative and production sides of the business.

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• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Fixer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer
• Translator

Professional videomaker with knowledge in many different fields of video production as such as executive, cast, scriptwriting, D.O.P, HD cameran, editing. My main field of experience: Social documentaries, Corporate Videos, educational content, NPO reports. My main field of interest: Cameraman, Direction.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Content creator specializing in Japan (20 years), travel, science and technology. Bylines in The New York Times, The Times, Nature, Discover, Lonely Planet, The Japan Times; custom content for global brands based in Japan and overseas. Author, Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots

• Reporter / Journalist
• Copywriter
• Content Strategist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Commercial

Japan based Videographer/DP/Camera Operator, working with foreign productions coming to Japan. Scott and his crew at Asia Video Support have worked for Discovery Channel, History Channel, Cirque du Soleil, Louis Vuitton, Lexus, Google, Pioneer, etc.

• Corporate Videographer
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• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Art director, photographer and film maker Boa Campbell, originally from Australia, half Japanese - creates human centric films, documentaries, photo stories... Working in areas including fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle.

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• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Corporate Videographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Fixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Post-Production Manager
• Colorist

I'm a writer, copywriter, and editor from the UK who is based in Tokyo. My main focus is science and tech, business, and startup companies. I also write travel pieces and advertorials, in addition to social media content.

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• Reporter / Journalist

Freelance video journalist, photographer, and writer based in Tokyo, Japan. Specialized on Japanese subcultures. Fixer and interpreter sometimes.

• Portrait Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - News

I'm a professional Film-maker and photographer with over 17 years experience. Full production capability with local bilingual production staff.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Digital Content Creator
• Production Company
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Art Director
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Colorist
• Executive Producer