Blake Little is an award-winning Los Angeles-based photographer best known for his honest and intimate portraiture. He was born and raised in Seattle, WA and studied at the University of Washington and Seattle Central College where he completed his photography degree in 1981. Little moved to Los Angeles and became part of the vibrant art scene, shooting portraits of David Hockney, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and many others.

This acclaimed series led to decades of commercial assignments in the entertainment industry. A short list of celebrity portraits include: Tom Cruise, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Steve Carell, Samuel Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Marcia Cross, Colin Powell, Lou Reed, kd Lang, 50 Cent, Glenn Close, Mike Myers, Jane Fonda, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Maya Rudolph, Dwayne Johnson and many more.

Some of his corporate clients are Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, and Virgin Atlantic. Little’s portraiture has been featured in The London Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Advocate, People Magazine, Time, Los Angeles Magazine and ESPN the Magazine.

Little’s fine art photography has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portugal, Canada, Holland, Brazil and Japan and has resulted in eight monographs: Dichotomy (1997), The Company of Men (2011), Manifest (2013), Preservation (2015), Photographs from the Gay Rodeo (2016), Work (2017), Primary (2022), and Construction Nudes 1981-1985 (2025).

In 2012, Little received a grant from the Canadian Rural Development Organization to photograph contemporary western culture in Alberta, Canada. The resulting exhibition, New West, traveled throughout western Canada from 2012 through 2019.

His 2015 museum exhibition, Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo 1988-1992, was first shown at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis and traveled for over five years to exhibitions at the Rapid City Art Center, Gilcrease Museum, University of Missouri Art Museum, San Diego State University Art Museum, Arizona Museum of Art and others.

Little’s Preservation photographs captured international attention with a successful gallery show at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, while the accompanying video caused a social media sensation with more than 3.8 million views on YouTube. Photos in this series won two prestigious awards: American Photography AP29 and second place in the fine-art nude category of the Int’l Photography/Lucie Foundation Awards.

In 2018 Tara, Las Vegas, NV from Little’s series Concealed: Portraits of LGBT Gun Owners was selected winner in American Photo AP34. In 2019 Concealed was a Special Projects and Audience Choice Award winner at the International Pride Photo Awards and exhibition in Amsterdam, Holland. Concealed also received the 2021 Lens Culture Critic Choice Award.

In January 2020, Little’s Fluid project, documenting members of the transgender, non-binary and gender fluid community opened at the University of Victoria Legacy Gallery and will travel in Canada and the US. Fluid was published in the art journal Public 62: The Gender Diverse Lens. Lyzanne, Saskatoon, SK f Jan, Saskatoon, SK from the Fluid series are selected winners in American Photos Best Photos of 2020 AP37 annual.

In October 2022, Blake published Primary, his 7th monograph, which sold out in 12 months. In 2023, Little’s photo, Monterey Marketplace Mall, 2022, from his new landscape series, Coachella Valley Anthropogenic, won an American Photography 39 Chosen Winner Award.

In 2024 Blake’s new series, Golden Years: Portraits of the Mature Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Community, was an American Photo AP40 winner and a Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris winner. Also, his series Coachella Valley Anthropogenic, won an IPA International Photography 2024 Award for landscape photography.

Little published Construction Nudes 1981-1985, his 8th monograph, in early 2025. Construction Nudes is Blake’s first post-academic body of work, and his first series produced after moving to Los Angeles. In Mach 2025, the series was featured in a solo exhibition at Jaco Moretti Gallery, Palm Springs, CA.

Preservation will be exhibited at the Yeast Photo Festival, a leading showcase of contemporary photography in Puglia, Italy from September - November 2025

The exhibition, Honey for Art and Society, at the Museum of Brot and Kunst in Ulm, Germany, March-September 2026 featured 3 of Blake’s Preservation photos along with artists, Joseph Beuys, Heidi Buhl and Felix Droese.

In April 2026, eight photographs were selected by curator Paul Martineau for the J Paul Getty Museum collection. Four works from Construction Nudes (1981–1985) were purchased and two photographs from Dichotomy (1997) and two Photograph's from the Gay Rodeo, 2015 were donated to the collection. This marks a meaningful milestone for Little’s career; one that affirms his commitment and the significance of his practice.