Buck Holzemer is a Minneapolis based commercial photographer and filmmaker who has also done personal fine art projects throughout his career. He majored in physics at the University of Minnesota and then studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He has won numerous commercial image making awards. These include the prestigious Clio award for television commercials, several appearances in the Communication Arts Photography Annual, awards from Print magazine, and the Grand Prize for fine art work from PDN magazine. In 2013 he won a best of show award from the International Photography Awards and the People’s Choice Award from National Geographic in 2019.
A versatile image maker, he has worked in a wide variety of photographic genres from still life to portraits to special effects. His filmmaking work has included work in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Italy and Guatemala. In 2018 he served as Co-Director of Photography for a feature film directed by Charlie Griak.
For the past 10 years he has worked on numerous projects for the St. Paul based non-profit Common Hope. The organization partners with families in Guatemala to help that coun
