Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s. 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 legends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Henry’s work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 40 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Honky Tonk, Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of students as their introduction to photography. His Shoot What You Love serves both as a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. His recent monograph Speedway1972 was published by Stanley/Barker (UK) in 2022, and We Sort of People was published by Kehrer Verlag (Ger) in 2023. Miles and Miles of Texas will be published by Honky Tonk Editions fall 2025. In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, Blitto Underground, and Marksville, LA, a film about Cajun Louisiana. Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.
2025 Festival Session