"Making photographs is my life now, actually more now than when I was younger. I thought I had many elements of interests in my life, but I now realize that photography is the main part of my life (and joy of creating and discovery)." - Kenro Izu
Izu has published 16 books which include Sacred Places (Arena Editions), Bhutan sacred within (Nazraeli), Teritories of Spirits (Skira), Seduction (Damiani), Eternal Light (Steidle) and Requiem of Pompeii (Skira).
Izu is a recipient of awards and fellowship, include National Endowment for Arts, New York Foundation for Arts and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Izu’s work has been exhibited in Rubin Museum of Art (New York), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Kiyosato Photographic Art Museum, (Yamanashi, Japan), Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York), Persiehl & Heine (Hamburg, Germany), In Camera Gallery (Paris, France), Fondazione Fotografia Modena (Modena, Italy), Nabshi Center (Tehran, Iran) and other museums and galleries of USA, Europe and Asia.
Aside photographic projects, during his photography trips to Cambodia in 1993, by witnessing children suffering by poverty and lack of healthcare system in the country, Izu founded a not-for-profit organization, Friends Without A Border (Friends) in New York and Tokyo, Japan. “Friends” founded and the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia in 1999. Since then AHC treated over 2 million children of Cambodia. In 2015, Izu and the “Friends” opened the Lao Friends Hospital for Children (LFHC) in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR to provide free and compassionate medical care to the children of Laos.