Ken Ross (photographer)

Ken Ross is an American independent commercial photographer who specializes in travel, location, people, and corporate photography. He is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Educated in the U.S. and Switzerland, Ross began his photography career while residing in Sydney, Australia in 1985. His work has taken him to more than eighty countries, including 57 trips to Europe. In 2008 alone, he worked in Japan, The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Yemen, Dubai, Oman, Ukraine, and Romania, among others. Ross has tens of thousands of images on file with a number of stock photo agencies around the world including Viesti Associates.

His photographs have also appeared in several books published in the U.S. & Europe, including his own book project, Real Taste of Life. His work has been exhibited in Phoenix, New York, Japan and Mexico. In May 2008, Ross had his first museum exhibit, a single artist show at the Art Museum of Monterey, Mexico. His work has been featured in How to Shoot Location Photography: Give It a Shot, Create magazine, Fall 2005 and in Photomedia magazine, Spring 2006. Ross was interviewed by WhoHub, a directory of interviews with professionals in the fields of communication, arts, humanities, technology, marketing, and any other activity with a creative flair. He has actively worked with Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE), an Arizona not-for-profit corporation, whose goal is to promote international understanding via the medium of photography.

Ken Ross is the son of psychiatrist and author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Emanuel "Manny" Ross, and serves as president of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation.

American Society of Media Photographers – 2008

2nd prize Portfolios.com contest – 2007

National Design Institute: 2006 Calendar

1st prize Colors of India contest – 2006

1st Prize Modern Photography Magazine – 1985

Summer 2008 | Nightingale Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

May 8 - June 2, 2008 | Art Museum of Monterey, Mexico (Museo El Centenaric)

March 7–9, 2008 | Karmic Calamity Gallery, 610 East Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ

Feb 12 - March 14, 2008 | Swiss Embassy, Tokyo

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