Welcome 2026 Speaker Ken Lee
We are delighted to announce that Ken Lee will be presenting at the Nightscaper Photo Conference!
Night Photographer
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Ken Lee is a night photographer. He drives long hours in a dusty car listening to weird music, stays out all night creating photos, gets dirty, hangs out with other creative sleep-deprived weirdos, sees the stars drift across the sky, and always finds the best taco stands.
He has been exploring the Southwestern United States as well as parts of the East Coast for over a decade, brandishing a camera, tripod and colored flashlight. He especially loves creating night photos of abandoned historical places, unique features and beautiful landscapes. These are experiences that he absolutely cherishes.
Ken also currently has several books of night photography of abandoned locales that he is working on with a publisher. His images have appeared in National Geographic books, Omni Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Westways Magazine and numerous other publications.
Ken’s Presentations
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How to Jump-Start Your Creativity in Night Photography
We all have hit creative walls in our night photography. However, there are easy, practical strategies that can blast past these walls and have you feeling creatively refreshed.
In this presentation, night photographer and author Ken Lee will offer strategies for changing your approaches and mindset, adding light that stokes the imagination and engenders new narratives, using fun techniques to stretch your compositional boundaries, and more. After all, night photography offers infinite possibilities, and this presentation will help you to explore more of them.
How to Light Paint Subjects Creatively
Are you interested in doing handheld light painting creatively, going beyond simply illuminating the foreground subject? The angles of light you choose profoundly affect how your subject appears in a photograph, and how you create texture, depth, dimensional quality, shadow and drama.
Much like a film director, you can choose what to highlight and what to keep in shadow while using a handheld light source during a long exposure of up to several minutes. Night photographer and author Ken Lee will use specific examples to show creative uses of light. He’ll break this down in a fun, easy-to-understand manner so you can begin crafting unique night photography images with a handheld light source.
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