Blake Little is an award-winning Los Angeles-based photographer best known for his honest and intimate portraiture. Little was born and raised in Seattle, WA. He 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 and Ed Ruscha and many others. This acclaimed series lead to decades of commercial assignments in the entertainment industry. A short list of celebrity portraits includes Tom Cruise, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Steve Carell, Samuel Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, 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 2012-2019. 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 5 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 LGBTQ+ 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’s 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 in 2021 at the University of Saskatoon Kenderdine Gallery. Fluid was published in the art journal Public 62: The Gender Diverse Lens.
Lyzanne, Saskatoon, SK and Jan, Saskatoon, SK from the Fluid series were selected winners in American Photos 2020 AP37 annual.  Blake published Primary, his 7^th monograph n October 2022, 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. Coachella Valley Anthropogenic was also a Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris winner in 2023.

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 is publishing Construction Nudes 1981-1985, his 8^th monograph, in January 2025. Construction Nudes is Blake’s first post academic body of work, and his first series produced after moving to Los Angeles. The exhibition, Honey for Art and Society, 2026 at the Museum of Brot and Kunst in Ulm, Germany, will feature Blake’s Preservation photos along with artists, Joseph Beuys, Heidi Buhl and Felix Droese.