Gary Levinson is a lifelong photographer whose work is grounded in observation, patience, and an enduring curiosity about people and the environments they inhabit. He began photographing at the age of eight with a Kodak Brownie, becoming his family’s documentarian. In college, he worked for a professional photographer, assisting on shoots and in the darkroom, gaining an early technical foundation.

Photography remained a constant throughout his life, but at the age of sixty, a day-long studio session with a Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, as a gift from his wife, marked a decisive return to the medium. Levinson subsequently sold his business, returned to school at the International Center of Photography in New York, and thereafter embarked on a cross-country search for a personal vision.

Inspired by Jay Dusard’s environmental portraits of American cowboys, he began a three-year, nomadic project photographing traditional cowboys throughout the American West. His continuing work explores people absorbed into their environments, as well as architectural details and landscapes absent of human presence, emphasizing restraint and formal clarity.

Levinson has received the Best Outdoor Photograph award from Photo District News and a Bronze Medal with four runner-up images at the Paris International Street Photography Awards. He currently works from his studios in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California.