To provide an imaging apparatus capable of correcting blotches and wrinkles to image good skin and obtaining an image of a clear-cut face.

A video camera 100 as an example of the imaging apparatus includes a visible region image generation part 402 receiving a light in a visible region from a subject to generate a visible region image, an ultraviolet region image generation part 403 receiving a light in an ultraviolet region from the subject to generate an ultraviolet region image, a skin area extraction part 405 extracting a skin area in the visible region image, a first color correction part 407 and a second color correction part 408 correcting the skin area extracted by the skin area extraction part 405 on the basis of a difference between the visible region image and the ultraviolet region image.