Raymond Patrick is a New York based global commercial, travel and lifestyle photographer.

Raymond is a National Geographic Expeditions Photographer.

He has traveled to 54 countries. Japan is a country he specializes in shooting.  He’s lived in Tokyo and Hokkaido and has been to Japan 45 times. 

Raymond has not only shot many assignments in Japan, but also globally in such diverse locations as The Maldives, Shanghai, Capri, Marrakesh, Paris, Rio, Berlin, South Africa, Kolkata, Iceland, Seoul, Stockholm, Ningaloo Reef-Australia, Sicily, Botswana, Bali, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Mallorca, Bogota, San Sebastian and Saigon. He’s been to 16 Caribbean islands, and Italy at least 18 times from Courmayeur shooting snowboarding on glaciers for Conde Nast Traveller and a Heli Ski company to Sicily 4 times.

He’s recently shot film stills on six films for Cisco - The Hatch. Two films were in Japan, one of which one was a 2021 Tokyo Olympics film called Shokunin Katagi and another on Rakuten. He’s shot for Apple in Tokyo, Lexus Japan, a global twenty day shoot for The IBM Annual Report, Park Hyatt Tokyo (The Lost in Translation Hotel), Nobu Hotels and Kamakura Shirts Japan among others.

He’s photographed the illustrious Anthony Bourdain and had a drink with him and also the renowned artist Damien Hirst 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, 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 to live an interesting life with a career traveling the world.

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