Hiroji Kubota, born in Tokyo in 1939, began his career in 1961 by assisting photographers René Burri, Burt Glinn, and Elliott Erwitt on their visit to Japan. Kubota later became a member of Magnum Photos himself in 1965. Over the course of his career, Hiroji Kubota has captured such historical events as America's civil rights movement and the fall of Saigon and has paid a number of visits to North Korea on photographic expeditions.
