Craig Blankenhorn - Portfolios

Craig has worked as a still photographer on some of the most iconic television shows in America - Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Succession and Only Murders in the Building are a few examples. His perfectly captured dramatic moments are regularly displayed in Times Square and the like. But, unbeknown to most, Craig has also been capturing the dramatic moments of New Yorkers and others across the country. Now, for the first time, Craig is sharing his personal work—telling the stories of everyday people in a single shot.

A recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Craig Blankenhorn is an Internationally published photographer and has work in the permanent collection of The City Museum of New York.

Craig Blakenhorn captures underground vignettes in

SUBWAY

"If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder where is my soul and where has it gone, remember this:

catch the gaze of a woman on the subway. Look at a man.

Seek and you will find in the silvered space,

a flash between souls."

--Naomi Shihab Nye

Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, Craig Blankenhorn grew up in Southern California. After two years in the US Army, as a Military Policeman in Europe, Craig picked up a camera and has been on a quest to document the human experience.

Craig Blakenhorn stakes out the perfect set and waits for the star to arrive in

21st Century BROOKLYN

Freedom

    is a strong seed

    Planted

    In a great need.

    I live here, too

    I want my freedom

    Just as you.

--Langston Hughes

After hitchhiking from Alaska to New York in his thirties - he met the love of his life, Susann Minton, a painter and an artist herself and has lived in New York City since.

Craig Blakenhorn allows beachgoers to show their true selves in

Coney island

Yes the world is the best place of all

for a lot of such things as

making the fun scene

and making the love scene

and making the sad scene

and going swimming

in the middle of the summer

and just generally 

'living it up'

Yes

but then right in the middle of it

comes the smiling

--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

His twenties were spent working blue collar jobs in Alaska, Louisiana and Oregon - as a boat skipper, a fisherman, and an oil field roughneck - all the while studying photography at the University of Oregon.

Craig Blankenhorn shows the art of hard work in

BLUE COLLAR

The workers their achievements one cannot say are small

But you will not see their names on a memorial wall

And so few to be like them to aspire

Though they are the people we ought to admire

--Francis Duggan

He shoots a wide range of commercial assignments - from editorial to advertising and sports to entertainment. Craig continues his lifelong passion for personal projects and seeking the extraordinary in ordinary.

the cockfighters

"What matters is not the idea a man holds,

but the depth at which he holds it."

--Ezra Pound