PROFILE

東京都生まれ
高校卒業後カリフォルニア州ロングビーチとシカゴで7年間過ごす。
コロンビアカレッジシカゴにて写真学部を卒業した後、日本に帰国。
カメラマンアシスタント等経験した後、
2007年から2011年まで4年間MIko Lim氏に師事。
スタジオフォトグラファーとして勤務後、
2017年から2022年まで渡豪、Factory Xにてヘッドフォトグラファーとして勤務、
その後フリーランスとして活動。
2022年3月、ベースを東京に移す。

Yuji Murakami was born in Tokyo, Japan.
He lived in both Long Beach, California and Chicago in The U.S. for 7 years after graduating from high school in Tokyo.
After completing his B.A. degree with a photography major at Columbia College Chicago,
he assisted for Miko Lim from N.Y. as a photo assistant and interpreter in Tokyo for 4 years.
After the disaster that hit Japan in 2011, he had been working as a studio photographer until 2016.
He moved to Melbourne Australia in 2017, and had been working as a photographer for Factory X until Feb 2022.
He became a freelance photographer in March, 2022.

He is pursuing his career in fashion and advertisement photography with his documentary style of portrait photography.

FEATURED WORKS

  • Magazines

Purple Night, 4SEE Magazin Berlin, Glamorous, Jelly, Used Mix, Street Jack, Luire, Rove, the Sax, the Flute, Engeki book, Zexy  etc.

  • Fashion Brands

Pameo Pose, Gyda, Dayz Tokyo, Marc Jacobs Japan, Milkcrate NYC, Loco Mosquito, Gorman, Dangerfield, Jack London, Alannah Hill, Princess Highway, Lurv, Autonomy, Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Peter Alexander, Portmans etc.

 ・ CDs
Yukino, Lucklang, Rod featuring Underdog

  • Miscellaneous

Nasty Gal, SHIMA, Core Jewels, Gilt, Gladd, Fun Empire,  Pixi express, All About, Restir, Ravi, Le baron de Paris, Harajuku Collection, Tokyo Collection and so on.