Mitch Kern

Mitch Kern (born 1965 New York City) is an American photographer.

He was born in New York City in 1965 and moved to Los Angeles in 1977. In 2002 he earned an MFA in photography from Penn State University and in 1999 an undergraduate degree in visual art from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

He has taught photography at Penn State University, University of Central Missouri, Louisiana Tech University and is currently a faculty member at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Early career

Portraiture is the thread that runs through his work. Since the early 1990s, he has produced a body of portraits that explore the human condition. Portraits produced on location dominate his early photographic output.

At the University of Maryland Baltimore County, he developed an environmental style while working as a media practitioner and documentary photographer. At the same time, he began exploring conceptual work.

As a graduate student at Penn State University working under Ken Graves and Charles Garoian he created his first visual metaphors of cultural identity. It is here he began enlarging his portraits to life-size proportions.

Current work

Today, Kern's work displays a range of objectives and styles including corporate, commercial and fine art. He teaches and speaks about photography internationally.

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