Sean Kernan is a photographer, writer and teacher who came to photography from theater. His photos have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, New York, Harpers, Bloomberg, Communication Arts, Graphis, Polyrama (Switzerland), Photo World (China), as well as magazines in Iran, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and has done a wide range of advertising work for clients such as AT&T, American Express, GE, Pratt & Whitney, Dow Jones, Harvard and Knoll. Kernan has produced and directed several award-winning documentaries.