Luke TAKATA is a photographer and storyteller based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute BFA Photography program, and the International Center of Photography Documentary Practice and Visual Storytelling program where he was a Directors Fellow. TAKATA has been recognized as an Award of Excellence winner by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University Alexia Foundation Grant, and his photographs are a part of the permanent collection at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. he is available for freelance work along the arizona-sonora border.