“To me, photography is all about taking chances,” artist and photographer Henry Lehn, explained. “It’s about removing the doors of a helicopter with 100 mile-per-hour winds ripping at you while you fly over some exotic island for a birds-eye shot. It’s about journeying back in time, traveling halfway around the world to find an ancient culture that hasn’t been ruined, as yet, by Western civilization.” Lehn hesitated, then laughed, “It’s about taking risks and ending up looking like an idiot - or getting the best shot of your life.” 

Born in Montreal, Canada, Henry Lehn has worked as a commercial illustrator, animation designer, and art director for several major advertising agencies in Canada, New York, and Los Angeles. In the mid-1980’s, he moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles to expand his career to include motion picture advertising. He has won a variety of awards for his animation and motion picture work, including several Key Art Awards. Lehn’s photography has been an integral part of his advertising career, as well as a separate business and artistic passion.

Lehn’s photos have won awards from such publications as Photo Insider, Popular Photography, Photo Life, Photographer’s Forum, and Islands Magazine, and his work has appeared in National Geographic. Lehn won the $10,000 grand prize for Popular Photography’s “Assignment Puerto Rico” competition. His most recent exhibitions include the internationally prestigious Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in France, and in California, Juried Exhibition at the Patricia Correia Gallery, Rhythms from the Heart of America, American Visions Photography Exhibition, Art Luck Exhibition, The Art of Illusion, and the Texas Photographic Society’s 16^th Annual Show. Lehn has been a contributing photographer to such stock photo agencies as, Lonely Planet, Superstock, Foto Expressions International, Picassomio, and Visuals Unlimited.

A seasoned traveler, Lehn has trekked throughout Africa, Madagascar, the Seychelle Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Tahiti, Bora Bora, the islands of French Polynesia, the Marquesas archipelago, Belize, Costa Rica, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Hawaii, Europe, the Caribbean, Morocco, Cuba, and Mauritius. His photo inventory reflects these travels, in addition to such genres as fine art/abstracts, wildlife, nature, lifestyles/people, scenics, panoramics, infrared color, and spectacular aerial shots.

Lehn integrates his two favorite passions of art and photography by utilizing the computer as a digital darkroom to create images, much like painters who painstakingly add each brush stroke to create their final vision.

Lehn is a popular lecturer for camera clubs, as he teaches the fusion of photography and Photoshop techniques. Currently, he is offering private Photoshop lessons in the classic style of a mentor at his studio-residence.

He resides in the San Fernando Valley area in a rambling old Spanish-style house, rumored to have several ghosts that are, of course, artists and photographers themselves.

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