profile - studio xray

BENTO
PETER
CHIC
KOJI KIKKAWA
SUMO CODE
KYOKUSHUZAN
!
Raymon Reynolds
PROFILE
THINK PINK
BENTO
NORIKA FUJIWARA
AKARI
FLASHBACK SHIBUYA
MAKI NOMIYA & SEIICHI TANABE
WHAT IS …?
HIROYUKI IKEUCHI, ASAMI ISHIKAWA
    RAYMON
THE EARLY YEARS
TOKYO JOURNAL
MONDAY MICHIRU
NADIR MAGAZINES
SAYOKO, PETER
TOKYU DEPARTMENT
 EIKO ISHIOKA
RAYMON WAS BORN A 60'S FLOWER CHILD
JUST OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON D.C. AND
RAISED ON HEAVY DOSES OF AMERICAN
TELEVISION AND POP ART. !
SON OF A MERCHANT MARINE, HE HAD
VISITED NEARLY HALF OF THE 50 STATES BY
AGE 9. AFTER RECIEVING AN ASSOSCIATE
OF ARTS DEGREE IN THEATRE IN OAHU, HE
HEADED OVERSEAS TO TOKYO, WHERE HE
EARNED A BACHELOR DEGREE IN
LINGUISTICS FROM I.C.U. (INTERNATIONAL
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY).!
IN THE WAKE OF GRADUATION, RAYMON
WAS EMPLOYED BY TOKYO JOURNAL
(CROSS CULTURE ENTERPRISES) AS
FASHION EDITOR, AND SIX MONTHS LATER
(DEC 1986) LAUNCHED nadir MAGAZINE
(PUBLISHED BY RYUKO TSUSHIN AND LATER
BY CROSS CULTURE ENTERPRISES). !
AFTER 3 YEARS, RAYMON LEFT THE
MAGAZINE TO WORK AS A FREELANCE
STYLIST AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR. DURING
THIS TIME, HE WORKED WITH MANY
LEADING JAPANESE CREATORS INCLUDING
EIKO ISHIOKA, KAORU IJIMA, SACHIKO ITO,
KAIZO HAYASHI, YOUSUI INOUE, PIZZICATO
FIVE, AND MONDAY MICHIRU. !
IN 1996 RAYMON RETURNED TO NEW YORK
FOR 1 YEAR, AND SPENT THE NEXT
SEVERAL YEARS TRAVELING BETWEEN
TOKYO AND MANHATTEN. !
ONWARD
M.HASUI
  IN 2001, HE JOINED CLOUD 9 AS CREATIVE
DIRECTOR, AND DIRECTED 6 MAGAZINE,
FLASHBACK SHIBUYA (A SPECIAL 30-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY ISSUE FOR PIA MAGAZINE)
AND BENTO MAGAZINE (FOR SHIODOME CITY
CENTER) AS WELL AS SPECIAL PUBISHING
PROJECTS FOR PHILIP MORIS, MICROSOFT,
AND PARCO AMONG OTHERS. !
THROUGH VARIOUS PROJECTS HE HAS
WORKED WITH MANY OF TOKYOʼS TOP
CREATORS AND CELEBRITIES, INCLUDING
ARTISTS TADANORI YOKO, YOSHITAKA
AMANO, KUNIYOSHI KANEKO, AND TAKASHI
M U R A K A M I ; P H O TO G R A P H E R S Z I G E N ,
HIROSHI NONAMI, NAOKI ISHIZAKA, HERBIE
YAMAGUCHI, KEVIN WESTINBERG, HAJIME
WATANABE, AND LESLIE KEE; PERFORMERS
PETER, KAORI MOMOI, MARI NATSUKI, KEN
WATANABE, KOJI KIKAWA, KENJI SAKAGUCHI,
TAKASHI SORIMACHI, NORIKA FURIWARA,
LINDA YAMAMOTO, MAKI NOMIYA, HIROKI
N A R I M I YA , H I R O Y U K I I K E U C H I , S H I D O
NAKAMURA, HIROSHI MIKAMI, ATSUKO
ASANO, KAZUMA SUZUKI, SAYOKO, MAJU
OZAWA, ASAHI UCHIDA, KENTA KIRITANI, AND
MANY OTHERS. !
HIROSHI MIKAMI
NORIKA FUJIWARA
KENJI SAKAGUCHI
ATSUKO ASANO
TAKASHI SORIMACHI
SHIDO NAKAMURA
KENJI SAKAGUCHI
MARI NATSUKI
HIROYUKI IKEUCHI
KENTA KIRITANI
MAKI NOMIYA
BENTO
KAORI MOMOI
HIROSHI MIKAMI
MAJU OZAWA
BENTO
MARI NATSUKI
BENTO
BENTO
BENTO
TAKASHI SORIMACHI
ELLE/ HOMME
KAIZO HAYASHI
PARCO
HIROSHI MIKAMI
BENTO
BENTO
THINK PINK
BECKY
HATCHI
ONI GOROSHI
TAIHEI
THIRST QUENCHER
MAKOTO
VAMPIRE SAMURAI
 RAYMON LEFT CL9 IN 2008, AND WORKED AS A
FREELANCE ADVISOR FOR SONY MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT UNTIL DECEMBER 2009. HE
CURRENTLY WORKS ON A FREELANCE BASIS . !
 A CAPRICORN WHO PREFERS TO READ
TOMO
FISHERMAN
NOBU
AQUARIUS, RAYMON IS ALSO KNOWN AS xray. !
UNDER THIS GUISE HE WORKS AS A
DIGITOGRAPHER, CREATING COLORFUL
FANTASY-BASED PORTRAITS WHICH FALL
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN PHOTO &
ILLUSTRATION. AMONG OTHERS, HE HAS
PHOTOGRAPHED RIKIYA, BECKY, SHUNSUKE
MATSUOKA, AND KOTARO KOIZUMI.!
SHUNSUKE MATSUOKA
THIRST QUENCHER
TWILIGHT SAMURAI
TOC
SAKURA FUBUKI
KOTARO KOIZUMI
AKIRA
 NIKKI
BOMBAY CAST
 NARIMIYA HIROKI
BERNHARD WILLHELM
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE DISPLAY
W H I L E AT C L O U D 9 , R AY M O N A L S O
OVERSAW THE CREATIVE DIRECTION FOR
MANY CORPORATE EVENTS FOR VARIOUS
CLIENTS INCLUDING GAP, BERNHARD
WILLHELM, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE, AMERICAN
AIRLINES, and CAMUS. IN ADDITION, HE HAS
WORKED ON SEVERAL LARGE-SCALE
EVENTS WITH AUDI, SWAROVSKI, AND MOST
RECENTLY WITH MAC COSMETICS AND LADY
GAGA (4/20/2010).!
MOMOI KAORI & SAYOKO
YASUE SATO &
KENTA KIRITANI
LADY GAGA
GAGA CAST
SUMO WRESTLER & HATCHI
RIKIYA
SHOGEN
MAKI NOMIYA/AUDI DISPLAY
AUDI CAST
GAP DISPLAY AND CAST
FROM FEBRUARY 2011 TO MAY 2013
RAYMON WAS BASED IN SHANGHAI
WHERE HE WORKED ON NUMEROUS
P R O J E C T S , M O S T N O TA B LY A S
CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE LAUNCH
OF 6 MAGAZINE, A WOMENʼS LARGE
FORMAT FASHION MAGAZINE.
IN
ADDITION, HE ALSO WORKED AS CITY
FA S H I O N R E P R E S E N TAT I V E F O R
FASHION
ONE
T V.
FROM MAY 2012 TILL MAY 2O13, RAYMON
WAS EMPLOYED BY ARKINCHINA CO.
WHERE HE SERVED AS CREATIVE
BRAND DIRECTOR PRODUCING FASHION
S H O W S , E V E N T S , A N D PA S H I O N
SHOOTS FOR
CHINESE BRANDS.
FROM MAY 2013 RAYMON RETURNED TO
TOKYO, WHERE HE WORKS ON A FREELANCE BASIS. !