Toru Morimoto

He started working as a photographer for Daily Nation, a Kenyan newspaper in Nairobi, while he was a master student of the photojournalism department in the School of Journalism in University of Missouri. In 1998, he documented the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi for the Kenyan paper. His photo project on the Kenyan victims of the bombing brought him an internship for The New York Times. He also worked as an intern for Magnum Photos and as an assistant of the late Magnum photographer Burt Glinn in New York. After the internship for the Times, he was sent to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for the New York Times to cover the West Africa. Later, he moved to Tokyo to continue working for the Times and other foreign magazines and newspapers. His works have been published mostly in American and European publications such as Newsweek, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Time Magazine, Los Angels Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Courrier International, and so on.

In 2004, he moved to Barcelona. Since then, he has been focusing on personal photographic documentary projects whose themes are about nations and ethnic identities. 

Currently he lives and works in a village deep in the mountains of Kyoto, Japan, where he has been keep working on personal photo projects. He recently uses alternative process such as polaroid transfer, platinum print, and wet plate collodion as well as traditional black and white film photography.