Beowulf Sheehan

Raised in South Florida and abroad, Beowulf Sheehan studied photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography. His childhood love of stories in books and music grew into an adulthood love of storytellers in the arts, entertainment, and humanities. Beowulf makes portraits, communicates ideas, and shares the stories of unique and compelling artists and figures who impact society and culture.

Among the striking creative voices Beowulf Sheehan has photographed are Bono, Stephen Colbert, Hugh Jackman, John Oliver, Yoko Ono, ?uestlove, the RZA, and Ai Weiwei. Published in the likes of Esquire, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, his work has been exhibited at institutions such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Dostoevsky Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, Museum of the City of New York, and Smithsonian Nationals Museum of African American History and Culture.

AUTHOR: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan is a beautiful and moving collection of photographs of more than 200 writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets from 35 countries, from Roxane Gay to Masha Gessen, Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard to J.K. Rowling, and Jonathan Franzen to Toni Morrison. Following an enlightening foreword by Salman Rushdie, Beowulf Sheehan shares an essay offering insights into the poignant and memorable moments he experienced while making these portraits. A treasured gift for readers and lovers of portrait photography, AUTHOR is the only book of its kind to appear in more than a decade. Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, AUTHOR is available for preorder now and will be in stores on October 9, 2018.