Ray Holland (Charles Raymond Holland) is a British photographer, born in 1957 and based in Cambridge. He studied photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham from 1979 to 1981, then went to Osaka in 1981 to photograph Asia for a colour library in London.
He stayed in Japan for more than two decades. He worked as an assistant at Yamagishi Studio, then the largest commercial photography studio in Osaka, learned to speak Japanese fluently, and travelled with the studio on location to Los Angeles, Guam and Okinawa. In his own work he photographs everyday life in black and white, at festivals and on the streets of Osaka and Kobe.
He returned to Cambridge in the early 2000s to raise a family, and in 2023 went back to Osaka to photograph the city again. He is also a composer who works with the sounds of Japanese and Indian instruments.
