Katsunori Kato is a Japanese photographer whose work is rooted in portraiture,advertising photography, and classical photographic processes.
With a professional background in hair, makeup, and visual design,Kato brings a deep sensitivity to form, texture, and human presence into his photographic practice.
His images are shaped by years of working closely with faces, bodies, and expressions,
resulting in portraits that reveal both physical detail and inner stillness.
Alongside contemporary photographic work,he is deeply engaged in classical techniques, including silver gelatin printing and wet plate collodion photography.
Through these processes, Kato explores themes of time, impermanence, and memory, embracing the materiality and discipline inherent in analog image-making.
His photographic practice seeks not spectacle, but quiet resonance—images that linger and breathe beyond the moment of exposure.
Kato continues to expand his work through exhibitions,
while dedicating himself to the study, preservation,
and transmission of classical photographic techniques.
Selected Career Highlights
Ehime Junior College, Orbis, Calcium, GOLD FLAG Co., Ltd., Aeon, Saty, Mycal,
Savvy, Samsonite, Panasonic, Beauty Eye, Fujii Daimaru, Hair Mode, Ryukotushin,
various fashion collections, and more.
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While the body is something we are born with, the spirit is shaped by our immediate environment.
The chemicals found in many everyday products can damage that environment,
and in turn, affect our inner balance and well-being.
For the sake of our inner beauty, we must be conscious of how we treat the world around us.
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1987 Joined Charlie Brown Hair Salon, Osaka
1988 Completed training in Cubic Cutting Association (CCA) techniques
1990 Winner, Perm Design Competition
1991 Excellence Award, Cut & Styling Competition
1992 Excellence Award, Cut & Styling Competition
1993 Founded hair salon and freelance hair & makeup studio
FABBY ORGANICS
1993 Established design studio FABBY Design
1993 Served as an instructor for CCA cutting techniques
1994 Selected for Hair & Makeup Grand Prix (Hair Mode Publishing)
1994 Studied French cutting, salon work, and total design at
CB-ACADEMY Salon & Education, Cambridge, UK
1995 Hair & Makeup Artist for
Passage Vingt et un CREATOR’s COLLECTION (Fujii Daimaru)
2012 Hair & Makeup for BRADELIS New York,
New York Collection
2012 Field research on henna production in Northern India
2014 Certified Reiki Master (Stage 3)
2014 Completed Shiro Abhyanga Head Therapy Course, Kyoto
2014 Indigo farm research in Southern India
2014 Completed Abhyanga Head Therapy and Abhyanga Therapy
courses in Kerala, India
2015 Certified Access Bars® Practitioner
2017 Launched cosmetic oil serum Akane Tsubaki
2020 Solo Exhibition
Clytie / Katsunori Kato Photography Exhibition
2024 Duo Exhibition
4×5 BnW Day By Day 2023
wish Gallery & Darkroom LimeLight, Kyoto
2024 Studied Wet Plate Collodion Photography at Akatsuki Shabō
2025 Participated in
The 6th Classical photograph® Exhibition
Glass Wet Plate Collodion Photography