Kitchen Minoru出生在美国德克萨斯州的沃斯堡，两岁的时候父母离异后便被带回日本国内生活，因此他脑中根本没有故乡的记忆。2005年，他获得了第33届日本广告摄影师协会大奖，之后他辞去了在房地产公司的职务正式成为一名自由摄影师，2009年再次获得该奖。

Kitchen Minoru最引人瞩目的作品当属“多摩川的人”系列。这个系列的产生是一次偶然的机会在多摩川拍外景看到一群放学的学生在夕阳下沿着河岸走过，他被那一刻深深打动，害羞的他犹豫再三才下定决心上前询问这些孩子是否愿意接受他的拍摄。学生们欣然接受，于是就有了第一部分的“多摩川的人”。Kitchen Minoru从此找到了自己摄影创作的方向，一直在多摩川的河岸旁守候走过的人，也逐渐拍下其他不同的人，其中有工人，有交通协管员，有消防队员，有恋人，也有孩子。这些作品全部为摆拍，大家的目光一律都虔诚的望向正在落下的夕阳。摄影师认为，夕阳是一天中最特别的时刻，人们往往能在那一瞬间看到一个真实的自我。而屏幕前的你在看到这些夕阳下的人的时候，是怎样的情绪呢？感伤、孤独、幸福，抑或是满足？

Kitchen Minoru was born in Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of two, his parents had divorced, and as Kitchen Minoru was brought up in Japan, he had no recollection of the Texas landscape or his original family home. He had suffered a complex because of this ever since. He graduated from Hosei University. He won the 33rd Japan Advertising Photographers’ Association Awards in 2005. After a brief period of employment in the realty business, he realized his dream of becoming a freelance photographer in 2005. He won 37th Japan Advertising Photographers’ Association Awards in second time in 2009. His most famous works is “The People of Tamagawa” series, shoting the people passed by the riverbank of Tamagawa in the sunset.