Douglas Kirkland
joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60's/70's photojournalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others.
Through the years, Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Out of Africa", "Titanic" and "Moulin Rouge".
Kirkland's fine arts photography has been exhibited all over the world and he is a highly sought after lecturer. He is a member of the prestigious Hewlett Packard's Photo Influencers and Canon's Explorers of Light and as well as an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Some of the awards he has received include a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the American S.O.C., Photographer of the Year from the PMA, a Lucie Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment Photography from the IPA in 2003, The Golden Eye of Russia in April 2006 and a Life Time Achievement Award from CAPIC in his native Toronto, Canada in May 2006. Among his current projects are a book on Milan based artist Kris Ruhs and a Black & White volume When We Were Young, Cinema Moments, An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes and The Women In My Life.