Yuko Torisu is from Kyoto, and she guraduated from art major in faculty of movie at Nihon Universuty in 1994. She had belonged to Kyoto Miyako Pictures and Industrial arts from 1994 to 1998, and worked for Kyoto Shochiku Film Studio and Toei Kyoto Uzumasa Film Studio as a still photographer. She studied under the print operator, Jack Demero and worked for him as an assistant in N.Y. from 1996 to 1998. After she studied in N.Y., she moved to London and worked for photo stuios as an assistant till 1999. She started working as a freelance photographer in 2001 after she studied under Koichiro Doi for a year.