I’m a self-taught Los Angeles based photographer.

When shooting commercial work, my focus is on creating simple and incisive photographs, quietly helping to shape the persona people present to the world. The trust people have in me brings out a strong sense of authenticity and intimacy.

My shoots generally unfold in a loose, journalistic style, leaving space for the spontaneous. In the words of one of my clients, “Beth does what great photographers do. She helps her subjects see something unseen to themselves, and in doing so she helps them move their own story forward.” (see more portraits)

I got my first break in the business by sneaking into the art department at Capitol Records.  It actually worked (!) and sometime later, Capitol had me shoot my first album cover (photographing rapper Schooly-D). I continued shooting music, and also branched out to advertising and editorial work. More archival music + entertainment images can be found in the Wayback Museum 

Selected clients include Warner Bros, Sony Music, Blue Note, Yep Roc, Concord Music, Capitol Records, The Face, OUT Magazine, Abitare, Arnold Worldwide, Didi Hirsch, AARP, First Five LA, Children’s Hospital, Hammer + Spear, Little Brown, and others.

I am drawn more and more to creating personal  work as well as documenting the world around me , most recently documenting life here in the Fairfax district. In general, the subject matter I most often gravitate towards is unspectacular, my images stubbornly undramatic, with no “decisive moment”. Southern California becomes a sort of collaborator in a subliminal guidebook, where the beautiful and the absurd coexist.

I find myself returning over and over to themes of fragility, mystery and impermanence in a world marked by contradictions.

I maintain a studio in Los Angeles, CA…

(and I enjoy donuts)