Disclosed is an image forming apparatus for lowering friction coefficient and lowering surface energy of photoconductor surface in particular, which comprises an electrophotographic photoconductor, charging unit, light exposure unit, developing unit, transferring unit, and fixing unit, the electrophotographic photoconductor comprises a photosensitive layer on a conductive support and fluoropolymer fine particles at the outermost layer, a part of the fluoropolymer fine particles are exposed above the surface of the outermost layer in configurations of primary particles and secondary particles formed by flocculation of plural primary particles, and sum of area ratios of particles in the configurations of the primary particles and the secondary particles, each particles having an average diameter D of 0.15 μm≦D≦3.0 μm as respective projected figures of exposed portion above the surface of the outermost layer, is 10% to 60% based on the entire surface area of the outermost layer, and wherein the binder resin in the outermost layer comprises a polyalylate copolymer resin having a structural unit of alkylene-aryldicarboxylate.