BIO
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| In Los Angeles, access is everything. But that means different things to different people. For photographer Larry Hirshowitz, who moved to LA in 1991 from South Africa, access means getting his lens close to celebrities as well as to those who fly under the media radar. One day he's shooting Sir Ben Kingsley or movie director David Lynch.The next he's documenting vibrant memorial murals in the heart of South Central. Hirshowitz grew up observing the starkly divided culture of apartheid South Africa. That gave him an eye for the beauty, diversity and tension of urban existence. With an unflinching photographic style, he has chronicled both the comfortable and the afflicted for the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles magazine, LA Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald Magazine, LA Weekly and many other publications. He also works with commercial clients on ad campaigns that showcase Hirshowitz's dreamy full - frame imagery. Among his many projects, Hirshowitz served for seven years as photographer in residence on "Morning Becomes Eclectic." where he documented a legenday line - up of visiting musicians and up - and - coming talents at the influential public radio show. Hirshowitz was there to catch the pre - performance jitters and early morning rituals of everyone from Elvis Costello and Beck to a then - obscure band named Coldplay. An ardent music fan, Hirshowitz lives near the beach in Los Angeles with his wife, Ruth Steinberg, a Hollywood stylist, and their son, Leo age 5 |
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