Craig Fujii is a contract photojournalist to Civil Beat.

He is the brother of Civil Beat staff photographer Kevin Fujii, and thus far we know of no relation to Noelle Fujii-Oride.

Fujii has had a long career in journalism starting in the early 1980s, working for The Dallas Morning News, The Seattle Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Associated Press in Los Angeles, Phnom Penh and New Delhi – and The Los Angeles Times.

While at The Seattle Times, Fujii photographed the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize for four staff writers. With the Associated Press, Fujii covered Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and was injured during the riots after the Rodney King verdict. He covered conflict in Afghanistan, and provided news and feature photos from Cambodia.

Fujii left journalism in the early 2000s to work in health care, eventually becoming an emergency nurse practitioner. He returned to journalism in 2025 and is a certified drone pilot. He lives in Waipahu with his partner, Dara, and their dog, QT.