Hugh Kretschmer

At 13, Hugh Kretschmer was introduced to photography by his
father, a photo-instrumentation engineer for NASA, from the
Mercury through Apollo missions. Hugh received a BFA from Art
Center College of Design, graduating with honors, and then
moved to New York City to start his commercial career. His client
list includes Old Spice, Penn & Teller, Sony, Honda, Yamaha,
Purina, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone,
GQ, Esquire, Oprah, and New York Times Magazine. The
International Photography Awards, American Photography,
Communication Arts, PDN, Graphis, and SPD have recognized
his images. His work has been exhibited in Paris, Berlin,
Montreal, São Paulo, Serbia, New York, and Los Angeles and was
the subject of a retrospective at the Hoban Museum in Seoul. His
photographs are on permanent display at the 911 Museum in New
York and the archives of the Library of Congress.
Hugh has also lectured and led workshops at Eddie Adams
Workshop in Jeffersonville, NY, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, and
Fotorama, Serbia. He teaches photography part-time at the Art
Center College of Design, UCLA Extension, and the Los Angeles
Center of Photography.