(TB and Eri, Takashimaya Deptment Store, Tokyo, Jan. 2006.)

Torin Boyd

American photojournalist Torin Boyd has been based out of Tokyo, Japan since 1986, concentrating his work on modern day Japan and Asia. He has worked in over twenty countries and throughout the 1990s was a contract photographer for U.S. News and World Report. More recently his client list includes; National Geographic, New York Times, Business Week, Handelsblatt, Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Japan Airlines, and Tourism Malaysia. Prior to his career in Japan he was a newspaper photographer in Florida during the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as a photographer for NASA and various surfing magazines. He has also participated on several publishing projects including the popular Day In the Life of book series, as well as co-authoring two books on Japanese photographic history.

Boyd is represented by Polaris Images of New York.

Exhibitions:

- 2007: Aikokushin - Japanese Patriotism: JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo, Japan (Aikokushin).
- 2001: Shinjuku Stories, Scruffy Murphy's, Tokyo, Japan (Japan Times review).
- 1997: Shinjuku Street Project, Visa Pour l'Image 1997, Perpignan, France.
- 1996: Shinjuku Street Project - a documentary on Tokyo's homeless, Shinjuku Station, Tokyo, Japan (group).

Published Works:

- 1300th Anniversary of the ancient city of Nara, Japan (New York Times, January 3, 2010).
- Sony Chairman Norio Ohga: classical conductor who studied under Herbert von Karajan (Weekend Handelsblatt May 9, 2008).
- Urban Camouflage: artist who designs fashion that mimics Coke machines (New York Times 10/19/07).
- Tokyo's Tachinomiya Bars With Standing Room Only (New York Times 5/6/06).
- How Did House Bands Become a Filipino Export? (New York Times Sunday Magazine 5/29/05).
- Land of the Rising Fan (Colors Magazine Summer '04).