Ken Schneiderman is an American photographer specializing in portraiture, entertainment, advertising and editorial work. Born in Atlanta, GA, he was heavily influenced at a young age by his family's Nat Geo magazine collection and family slideshow nights. Ken studied music and anthropology in college, whilst working at a hospital in hopes of purging a career in medicine. After photographing faces and places for a month along the five hundred mile medieval pilgrimage route, El Camino de Santiago in Spain, ken took a job in New York City as the darkroom printer forphotographer Arnold Newman. Later that year he began assisting and traveling the world with a myriad of other photographers including: Mary Ellen Mark, Rodney Smith, Albert Watson, Dan Winters, Frank Ockenfels, Brigitte Lacombe and Andrew Eccles.

Whether shooting key art for entertainment projects, editorial essays, soulful portraits for public awareness campaigns, or street photography around the world, Ken is known for his seasoned professionalism, comfortable demeanor, and commitment to his craft. He's been a volunteer photographer for Love Not Lost, helping to preserve memories of terminally ill family members since 2015. Ken regularly teaches photography and lighting in workshops and at a college level in Georgia. Despite modernity, he still finds magic crafting portraits slowly on sheet film using his 1959 Linhof large format camera. An avid ukulele player, Ken and his wife, Mai, have one daughter who is a Taekwondo Blackbelt and Georgia State Champ, and a small scruffy dog who has a blackbelt in barking. All four dwell in Atlanta.