Lee Corkett

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Lee Corkett (www.leecorkett.com) is an editorial, portrait, and performing arts photographer based in Los Angeles. From an early age he’s loved to explore the world, both with a camera and without, and first began his personal career in photography as a teenager by reading every book he could find at his local library. After moving to California from his home in Canada, he pursued formal education in photography, followed by a degree in Sociocultural and Visual Anthropology. His interests lie not just in how photographs are made, but why they’re made, how we use them and how we can understand ourselves through them. He’s been teaching since his early twenties when he accepted a teaching position in Indonesia and has received several awards in both the visual artsand the social sciences. He is currently working on several curatorial projects, as well as a portrait series depicting the Middle Eastern and Tribal Fusion dance scene in California.