Rich Iwasaki is a professional photographer based in Portland, Oregon.

From 1985, he specialized in location photography of people and places for corporate and editorial clients. His work has appeared in  Forbes, Sunset, Newsweek, Business Week and numerous corporate publications and annual reports for such companies as Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, and Timberline Software.

Today, Iwasaki frequently explores subjects of his own choosing, committing them to images that are distinctively graphic and uncomplicated. His work finds buyers around the globe through stock photography agencies, including Getty Images, Mira, and age fotostock.

Iwasaki's current projects are intensely personal. His interest in music and the performing arts led to recent assignments with Chamber Music NW and the Portland Baroque Orchestra, among others. He has also photographed an extensive body of work reflecting the influence of classical compositions, jazz, and even taiko, the ancient art of Japanese drumming.

Iwasaki travels frequently to Japan, indulging an open-ended passion to create a visual record of the energy, history, and subtle beauty of that land and its culture.

On the opposite side of the ocean, he has taken his camera throughout the Pacific Northwest and up and down the West coast, preserving in pictures the unique character of its cities and landscapes. Iwasaki's photographs have also appeared in two award-winning books,  Tools of the Trade and  Tools of the Earth, written by Jeff Taylor and published by Chronicle Books.