Drew Doggett

Drew Doggett is an award-winning American fine-art photographer whose striking black-and-white imagery blends ethnography with fashion photography to document cultures, communities and wildlife around the globe.

Doggett began his career in New York as a lighting and digital assistant, apprenticing for six years under Mark Seliger, Steven Klein and Annie Leibovitz. In 2009, at 26, he left fashion photography to mount an expedition to document the Humla community in Nepal's Himalayas. "High in the Himalayas, thousands of miles from anything that was familiar to me, I knew I had found my calling," he has said. He returned to New York and committed fully to fine-art photography.

A purist, Doggett shoots primarily in natural light — shaping it with silks and screens before converting to black and white and working with dodging and burning techniques. His signature white backdrop distils subjects to their essential character, producing "a very focused canvas that eliminates distractions."

He has received more than 130 international awards, including being named the number-one US black-and-white photographer (fourth globally) by One Eyeland in 2020, and a distinction from the Royal Photographic Society. In 2022 he was appointed an ambassador for Re:wild, the conservation nonprofit co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio. His work is held in the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and The Mariners' Museum.