Kerik Kouklis is a fine art and documentary photographer based along California’s Central Coast who has been involved in creating photographs since his father set up a darkroom in the basement when he was 12 (1972). Born and raised in California with a background in music and geology, Kerik combines a contemporary eye with 19th, 20th, and 21st-century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. He has used these processes to create his work since 1989 and has been teaching workshops in these processes since 1997, both in his home studio and at various locations around the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. In 2017, Kerik began working in color by combining inkjet pigments with palladium printing. These prints are reminiscent of hand-colored photographs from the late 1800s. In 2019, Kerik learned the very first photographic process, the daguerreotype. He is still honing his skills in this difficult but uniquely beautiful process. Kerik’s work is currently represented by AureliaGallery in New Mexico, Oficino Uno in Carmel, and the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, where he is in his 26th year teaching historic printing techniques in Ansel’s darkroom. In recent years, Kerik’s travels have taken him to Iceland, Scotland, Norway, the Galapagos, Mongolia, Germany, Austria, Japan, Hungary, and Italy. He has adopted the use of a drone to make aerial photographs on his travels, where permitted. In 2016, Kerik was awarded a two-week Artist Residency in Yosemite National Park by Yosemite Renaissance. In 2017, Kerik completed his first documentary short film, “Mongolia in Winter”. He is currently working on a documentary film about an Antarctic expedition that occurred in 1958. His prints are held in private and corporate collections in North America and Europe, as well as the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Kerik serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California. In 2021, after 31 years living in the Sierra Foothills, Kerik and his wife Carol relocated to California’s central coast, just a few miles from where Ansel Adams and Edward Weston made some of their iconic photographs.