Commercial photography
Minami Pictures produces high quality commercial photography for businesses in the Los Angeles and South Bay LA area.
We shoot product photography, architectural images, fashion photography and photos for web sites and catalogs.
About the photographer
Brian Minami is a photojournalist and commercial photographer based in Gardena, California. Brian shoots photojournalism, commercial photography, landscapes, street photography, headshots for actors and business, portraits, 3d stereo photography, community events, children and more.
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Photos of Recent work | 2018-2020
Recent photos including a mix of photojournalism, travel, music, documentary, family and personal pictures.
Demonstrators chant "Black lives matter here!" in protest of the Minneapolis Police killing of George Floyd at the intersection of Third Street and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
These are some of the youngest protestors and the reason I left the scene early!
Japanese dance studio, Bando Hiromiya, showcases student performances Sunday, March 1, 2020, at their annual luncheon in Torrance, California.
Japanese dance studio, Bando Hiromiya, showcases student performances Sunday, March 1, 2020, at their annual luncheon in Torrance, California.
Japanese dance studio, Bando Hiromiya, showcases student performances Sunday, March 1, 2020, at their annual luncheon in Torrance, California.
Bando Hiromiya
Bando Hidesomi and Bando Hiromiya dance Sunday, August 11, 2019, during the Nisei Week Parade in Little Tokyo.
Manzanar
Camping out in the Alabama Hills, California
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Los Angelenos protest the brutal Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. — Saturday, May 30, 2020
Bando Hiromiya Annual Luncheon — Sunday, March 1, 2020
Nisei Week Parade — Sunday, August 11, 2019
Owens Valley: Camping in the Alabama Hills, Tri-County Fair in Bishop and Manzanar — August 31 - September 2, 2018
Kanani Kalama Hula at Alondra Park — Saturday, July 21, 2018
WLA Girls 1st Grade Basketball at University High School — Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, 2018
Bando Hiromiya performs at the Torrance Bunka-Sai Japanese Cultural Festival. — Sunday, April 8, 2018
Kanani Kalama Hālau Christmas Show at the Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach, California. — Sunday, December 17, 2017
Nisei Week Ondo — August 27, 2017
Bando Hidesomi and Bando Hiromiya at the 2017 Nisei Week Parade — August 20, 2017
Gardena Obon Festival 2017 — August 13, 2017
Jetts Basketball at Barnes Park, Monterey Park, California — July 22 and 23, 2017
Kanani Kalama Hālau performs Sunday, July 15, 2017, at the Alondra Park Ho'olaule'a — June 25, 2017
Kanani Kalama Hula performs at the JCI Matsuri in Gardena, California — June 25, 2017
Aquarium visit on Seiji's third birthday, Long Beach — June 14, 2017
Bando Hiromiya, Torrance, California — May 21, 2017
South Bay Dragons, Sansei Baseball T-ball, Torrance, California — May and June, 2017
Bando Hiromiya performs Chidori no kyoku in Torrance — April 15, 2017
Japanese dance rehearsal, Gardena — April 2, 2017
World flags and drum circle at Venice Beach — February 26, 2017
Innovation labs open at Pico Rivera elementary schools — February 15, 2017
No Trump Muslim Ban Protest at LAX — January 28, 2017
Women's March, Los Angeles — January 21, 2017
Kanani Kalama Hula School Christmas Party — December 10, 2016
Friends of Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve Tenth Anniversary — November 13, 2016
Kagoshima to Tokyo via Kumamoto — June 5, 2016
Hayato no Kaze, Kagoshima-jinguu, Kirishima, Hayato — June 4, 2016
Kagoshima, Bullet train: Nagasaki to Kagoshima, Sakurajima, Kagoshimachuo Station — June 1-3, 2016
Nagasaki Peace Park, Urakami Cathedral, Shoufukji, Suwa Shrine, Mt. Inasa night view — May 29-31, 2016
Miyajima Island and bullet train: Hiroshima to Nagasaki — May 28, 2016
Hiroshima on the day of Obama's visit — May 27, 2016
Hiroshima Anti-war, anti-Obama protest — May 26, 2016
Fujisawa and Kamakura, Kanagawa-ken, Japan — May 24 and 25, 2016
Sansei T-ball: Awesome Blossoms v Rascals, Torrance, California — April 23, 2016
Owens Valley, Manzanar Internment Camp Site, Alabama Hills, Independence, Ballard, Trona, California — April 5-7, 2016
Big Island, Hawai'i: Volcanoes National Park, Hilo, Punalu'u, Kona — October 1-4, 2015
Big Island, Hawai'i: Hōnaunau, Holualoa, Kona — September 27-30, 2015
Obon Festival, Gardena, California — Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2, 2015
Titanium fire in Carson, California — Tuesday, July 22, 2015
Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well, Santa Clara, California. — Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28, 2015
Dead humpback at Sharp Park, Pacifica, California — Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Erin Brockovich in Gardena — Thursday, April 30, 2015
Hello Kitty exhibit at JANM, Little Tokyo — Saturday, April 11, 2015
Undoukai — Sunday, March 29, 2015
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company's 'The Kids Show' — Friday, March 13, 2015
Two weeks after the Exxon Mobil Torrance Refinery explosion
Morro Rock, Morro Bay, California
Ferguson solidarity protest in Los Angeles — Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Bon odori in Gardena. — Saturday and Sunday, August 2 - 3, 2014
FoLAR's River Rover unveiled at Marsh Street Nature Park, Elysian Valley — Saturday, July 19, 2014
Dr. Sebi, herbalist and healer, poses at his office in Los Angeles and speaks at the Los Angeles Convention Center. — May 6 and August 24, 2014.
Moonstone Beach and Painted Rock — Sunday - Monday, February 22 -23, 2014
Claremont Colleges, IDAAS, 15th Anniversary — Saturday, October 12, 2013
Ethio-Cali at Grand Park Turns One! — Thursday, October 10, 2013
Venice Beach Drum Circle — Sunday, September 8, 2013
Alaska: Seward, Tern Lake, Eklutna Lake, Anchorage, Alaska Native Heritage Center, Town Square Park — July 17 and 18, 2013
Alaska: Girdwood, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Seward, Exit Glacier — July 16 and 17, 2013
Alaska: Anchorage, Whittier, Prince Edward Sound — July 14 and 15, 2013
Bear Paw Festival in Eagle River, Alaska — Saturday, July 13, 2013
Marin County Fair — Thursday, July 4, 2013
13th Annual Los Angeles River Ride — Sunday, June 9, 2013
Maui: Road to Hana, Nahiku, Wai'anapanapa, whale watching off Lahaina, Old Lahaina Luau dancers, snorkling at Ka'anapali — Sunday to Tuesday, February 10 - 12, 2013
Maui: DT Fleming Beach Park in Kapalua, Kahakuloa, Lahaina, Olowalu petroglyphs, A & B Sugar Plantation in Pu'unene and Chinese New Year festivities in Kahalui — Friday and Saturday, February 8 and 9, 2013
Endeavour treks through Westchester and Inglewood — Friday, October 12, 2012
Space shuttle Endeavour flies over Los Angeles — Friday, September 21, 2012
Aquarium of the Pacific, downtown Long Beach, California — Saturday, August 24, 2012
Police killing protest at the Anaheim Police Department in downtown Anaheim, California — Sunday, July 29, 2012
Puye Cliff Dwellings, Taos, Taos Pueblo, Valley of the Gods, Monument Valley — Monday - Wednesday, July 9 - 11, 2012
Art of Gaman exhibition opening at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico — Sunday, July 8, 2012
Road Trip to Santa Fe via Seligman, Winslow, Gallup, Coronado State Monument — Thursday - Saturday, July 5 - 8, 2012
Los Angeles River Ride, Griffith Park, Los Angeles — Saturday, June 10, 2012
Lower Compton Creek, LA River Cleanup — Saturday, April 28, 2012
Leupp Indian Boarding School and Leupp Citizen Isolation Center ruins, Old Leupp, Arizona — Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Navajo water rights meeting, Teesto, Arizona — Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona — Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24-25, 2012
From inside and outside the barbed wire, Santa Fe — Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22, 2012
Site of the execution of Isomura and Kobata, Lordsburg Internment Camp, POW Road, Lordsburg, New Mexico — Friday, April 20, 2012
Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site at former Catalina Federal Honor Camp near Tucson, Arizona — Thursday, April 19, 2012
Road Trip Arizona — Thursday, April 19, 2012
First game of the season, Mile Square Park, Fountain Valley — Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Day 30 at Occupy Los Angeles — Sunday, October 30, 2011
Jam session at Te'Amir's 25th birthday party, near Mar Vista — Saturday, October 8, 2011
LA Bike Summit — Long Beach — Friday, September 30, 2011
Photos of California Coastal Cleanup — Dominguez Channel, Gardena — Saturday, September 17, 2011
MMA at the Normandie Casino in Gardena, California — Saturday, June 18, 2011
2011 LA River Ride — Sunday, June 5, 2011
Community Voices | Literacy for All of Monterey Park (LAMP) poetry reading — Monday, May 3, 2011
2011 LA River cleanup [La gran limpieza] at Willows Street Estuary in Long Beach — Saturday, April 30, 2011
Photography from Red Rock Canyon, NV, Hoover Dam, Calico, CA — February, 2011
Student shooting in Gardena — January 18, 2011
Kabuki Renaissance — Redondo Beach, November 13, 2010
CicLAvia — Los Angeles, October 10, 2010
Kings Canyon National Park — September 11-13, 2010
Nisei Week Festival 2010 — Sunday, August 15, 2010, in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles
Gardena obon matsuri 2010 — Saturday and Sunday, July 31 - August 1, 2010
Bell residents demand ouster of overpaid city officials — Monday, July 26, 2010
LA River Cleanup, Atwater — Friday, April 30, 2010
Manzanar Pilgrimage — Former prisoners, their families and a diverse group of supporters traveled Saturday, April 24, 2010, to Manzanar, California, the site of the prison camp that held 11,070 Japanese Americans during WWII.
