Hiroki Inoue was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1979 and graduated Sapporo-Minami high school, Niigata University and finished Tohoku Gakuin University Graduate school, Course of Law. He started to take scenery photos after coming back to Hokkaido and has been creating beautiful landscape studies including animals, mainly the Ezo red fox. Among the recent awards and honors he has achieved the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Nature First Prize. In his work A Wild Fox Chase, he has questioned the relationship between nature and human society. He has recently worked with the Japanese Airline Company AIRDO, which connects Hokkaido and the Japanese mainland, and his photos have been used not only by Japanese media but also in global advertisements.