Raymond Patrick is a New York based global photographer and has traveled to 53 countries. Japan is a country he specializes in shooting.  He’s lived in Tokyo and Hokkaido and has been to Japan 44 times. 

Raymond has shot assignments in such diverse locations such as The Maldives, Shanghai, Berlin, South Africa, Iceland, Seoul, Stockholm, Sicily, Lisbon, The Balearic Islands, San Sebastian, Saigon, Marrakesh, Paris, Botswana and Buenos Aires. He’s lived in Japan twice and has traveled there 44 times. He’s been to 16 Caribbean islands, and Italy at least 18 times from Courmayeur shooting snowboarding on glaciers to Sicily 4 times.

He’s recently shot stills on six films for Cisco - The Hatch. In 2019 - two films were in Japan, one of which one was a 2020 Olympics film called Shokunin Katagi. He’s shot several times for Salesforce in Tokyo, Lexus, a global shoot for The IBM Annual Report, Nobu Hotels and Kamakura Shirts Japan among others.

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Raymond's experience from a young age was based in travel; his family lived in Hokkaido, Japan which had a profound effect on his life and instilled a love of Japan. His great uncle was the painter Fremont Ellis, one of the founders of the art colony in Santa Fe, New Mexico called Los Cinco Pintores (The Five Painters). Some creative directors have noticed the influence in the fleeting light, sense of space and perspective Raymond captures in his pictures.

Influenced by his father who had a love of photography and was always taking portraits and travel pictures, Raymond took his first photography class at fourteen. By fifteen, fueled by his enthusiasm for skateboarding in high school became a Pepsi Skateboard Team Photographer. 

Prolific in drawing since he was a young boy, Raymond was undecided on a career path. At 19, Raymond was invited to be in a gallery show with the Automotive Fine Arts Society. He considered transportation design as well as photography and studied for a short time at Art Center in California, but it was during this period, he made a resolute decision to be a photographer. Mindful of a path in life that could end up being a predictable journey, he wanted an independent creative life and a career traveling the world.

Raymond moved to New York and assisted the legendary photographer Steven Klein and Stewart Ferebee; a Travel + Leisure photographer.