About Eduardo Fujii
Eduardo
Eduardo Fujii works where memory thins into dream, crafting images that feel as if they were found in the mind’s quiet hours rather than in the world itself. Based on the mist-lit Monterey Peninsula, he gathers fleeting impressions, an echo of music, a half-remembered gesture, a shimmer of light, and builds them into cinematic fragments that hover between the seen and the imagined.
A former pianist and painter, Eduardo composes his photographs the way others score a prelude: in layers, in whispers, in emotional afterglow. He assembles textures, multiple exposures, and atmospheric traces not to record reality but to reveal what lies beneath it. Each image becomes a soft self-portrait, romantic, enigmatic, unfinished, inviting viewers to step into the silence between moments and complete the story themselves.
His work has traveled through galleries and publications across the United States and abroad, gathering recognition from B&W Magazine, Color Magazine, PX3, Israeli Art Market, Professional Photographer Magazine, and the International Color Awards. In 2017, he was named Photographer of the Year at the Black & White Spider Awards.
For Eduardo, art is not an option but a vital function, a pulse he follows into the unknown. His photographs linger like dreams that refuse to fade, carrying with them a sense of beauty, fragility, and the mysteries we sense long before we understand.

Gallery exhibitions
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Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
- Monterey Biennial: Resonance and Reflection, May 15 – Aug 31, 2025
- Sacred Encounters, Sep 7 - Dec 17, 2023
- Chateau Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
- The Abstract Image, Jan 1 - Feb 1, 2025
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A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
- Story, Nov 8 to Dec 19, 2024 (Director's award)
- Trees, Nov 20, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021 (Director's honorable mention)
- Domicile juror's award)
- Portal (Director's honorable mention)
- Botanical (Juror's honorable mention)
- Light (Juror's honorable mention)
- Being Set Free (Director's award)
- Animalia
- She (Director's award)
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Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel California
Frame of Mind - jan 12 - feb 17, 2024 - Harvey Milk Photo Center
- San Francisco, California
- frame of mind, nov 4 - dec 2, 2023
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Israeli Art Market
online - jan 1 - march 1, 2021
2021 New Year Exhibition
online - dec 25, 2021 - feb 28, 2022
2022 New Year Exhibition -
Cherry Center for the Arts
Carmel California - sep 4 - oct 2, 2020
In the Shadow of Corona -
Millepiani Exhibition Space
rome Italy
2020 Isolation - Living Oneself Exhibition -
Agora Gallery
new york New York - December 1-31, 2019 -
Center for Photographic Art
Carmel California
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Darkroom Gallery
Essex Jct. Vermont
Wet Exhibition -
Blank Wall Gallery
Athens Greece
Black and White Exhibition -
Carmel Art Institute
Carmel California -
Alvarado Gallery
Monterey Conference Center - The Language of Flowers
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Jan 16 - March 8, 2015
- Monterey, California
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Redwood Shores Library Gallery
The Evolving Story Redwoor City, California -
Center for Fine Art Photography
Fort Collins Colorado -
Photoplace Gallery
Middlebury Vermont -
RoHo Gallery
Cincinnati Ohio
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Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Awards and Publications
- YourDailyPhotograph.com
- Dec 3, 2025 | Aug 24, 2025 | Aug 3, 2025 | July 14, 2025 Dance Exhibition | June 9, 2025 | Jan 18, 2025 | 2024 | Sep 10, 2020 | Nov 9, 2018
- FotoNostrum Magazine: 4th Portfolio Awards, December 2024
- Shots Magazine: Issue 165: Self Portrait, Winter 2024 | Issue 164: Time Travel, Fall 2024 | Issue 163: Dreams, Spring/Summer 2024 | Issue 128: Open Theme, Summer 2015
- LoosenArt Magazine, Somewhere Exhibition, August 2024 | Isolated - Living Yourself, March-April 2020
- Black & White Magazine, 2025 Contest Winners: Digital Manipulation, Issue 174, October 2025 | 2024 Contest Winners: Digital Manipulation, Issue 168, October 2024 | Single Image Contest Winners, Special Issue 165, April 2024 | Smartphone Contest Winners, Issue 156 December 2022, Issue 149 December 2021 | Best Smartphone Images, Issue 39, June 2020 | Merit Award, Issue 134, Aug 2019 | Excellence Award, Special Issue 122, August 2017 | Spotlight Award, Issue 105, Oct 2014 | Merit Award, Issue 104, Aug 2014 | Merit Award, B&W + Color Issue 90, Apr 2012 | Merit Award, Issue 84, Aug 2011 | Spotlight Award, B&W + Color Issue 83, Jun 2011 | Merit Award, Issue 72, Feb 2010 | Merit Award, Issue 68, Aug 2009
- Black and White Spider Awards: Photographer of the Year: Aloe Vera Garden | 2nd Place (Merit of Excellence): Brown Pelican | Honorable Mention: Cascade, Trippin, Skimmers, Cacophony 2, Auto Erotica n.36 | Nominee: Lake El Estero, Danza Azteca Xipe Totec, Spider Mum, Cacophony 1, Lightscape, Loneliness, Dudleya, Floral Ballet, Fable Earth n.3, Pensive, Anatomy of a Ballerina, Symphony of the Ocean, Marabou Storks, Luminous Nature, My Dining Room, Providencia, Del Monte Forest, Passista, Kite Tails, Oars
- Fine Art Photography Awards: 10th (Experimental), 6th (Fine Art), 5th (Fine Art), 4th (Conceptual, Fine Art), 3rd (Abstract, Fine Art)
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Shadow & Light Magazine:
March/April 2024 • Volume 10 Issue 58, Featured Showcase Portfolio: Fractured Souls | March/April 2016 • Volume 2 Issue 3 (read the interview)
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London International Creative Competition (LICC): 2022 Official Selection; 2021 Official Selection; 2021 Finalist
- Monochrome Awards: 2021, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2016, 2015, 2015
- 2021 Tokyo International Photo Awards: The Psychology of Trees
- PX3 Prix de la Photographie: 2020 Honorable Mention Fine Art | 2011 Bronze Fine Art
- Photographize Magazine - Issue 40; Issue 43, Jan 2020
- Giotto International Prize, ART Now, Art International Contemporary Magazine issue #6, November-December, 2019
- Rfotofolio, Poetic Inspirations of the Ordinary | Interview
- Don't Take Pictures Photo of the Day May 2, 2019
- Art Market International Magazine - Gold List Special Edition #4
- PhotoLucida: Critical Mass 2018 Top 200 finalist!
- International Color Awards: 1st Place, Outstanding Achievement: Aloe Vera Garden - 12th Annual, Guardians of the Lake - 4th Annual | 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence: Untitled - 6th Annual | Honorable Mention: Coffee Break - 5th Annual, Untitled - 6th Annual, Ashley - 9th Annual, Feathered Portrait n.2 - 9th Annual, Feathered Portrait n.1 - 10th Annual, Ocean Symphony- 10th Annual, Danza Azteca Xipe Totec - 11th Annual | Nominee: Carmelites Monastery - 4th Annual, Pines - 4th Annual, Paroisse Saint-German de L'Auxerrois - 5th Annual, Amaryllis - 6th Annual, Predators n.2 - 6th Annual, Red Nose - 7th Annual, Glass Pyramid - 8th Annual, Filigree Glass Roof - 8th Annual, The Leftovers - 9th Annual, Caged at the Tuileries - 9th Annual, Chilean Cowboy - 10th Annual, Dependency - 11th Annual, The Gardener - 12th Annual, Untitled - 13th Annual, Embrace - 14th Annual
- International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention: The Uncertain Nature of Reality - 2018, The Gardener - 2017, Monterey Brown Pelican - 2013, Guardians of the Lake - 2012, Illuminarium N. 1 - 2012
- 2018 12th Pollux Awards - Fine Art Honorable Mention
- Szeroki Kadr by Nikon
- Professional Photographer Magazine: Professional Photographer of the Year 2013
- Photographer's Forum Magazine: Best of Photography 2013 | Best of Photography 2017





























Dennis Taylor interviews fine art photographer Eduardo Fujii for the Carmel Pine Cone.
Artist-author Mark Baer interviews Eduardo Fujii for Your Town television program (August 30, 2017)
Eduardo Fujii invited to be a panelist on West Coast Focus TV program hosted by Steve Zmak (May 5, 2017)
Interview shot on location at the Museum of Monterey