

Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston. In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground (2022). Black and White Photography Color Photography Vintage Photography Sepia-Tone Photography.

His Shoot What You Love serves both a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. Henry Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography and Beyond Basic Photography,and monographs such as Honky Tonk, Animalia, Show,and Close Relations.

He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography. Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Shoot What You Love (a memoir), Histories, Show, Honky Tonk, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s.
