According to an embodiment of the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, an image correcting unit, and a correction preprocessing unit. The image acquiring unit acquires an image. The image correcting unit performs distortion correction for the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. The correction preprocessing unit determines an inclination of a face of a person in the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. Further, the correction preprocessing unit performs control so that the image correcting unit performs distortion correction of the image at an intensity according to the determined inclination of the face.