Okutomi, Kazu

Kazu Okutomi has been a professional photographer since the 1960s. He opened a commercial studio in Tokyo, Japan in 1965, which he operated until 1969, when he moved to the United States to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Okutomi worked in Chicago as a commercial photographer until relocating to Arizona in 2006 and shifting his focus to fine art photography.