Kevin Horan is a photographic artist based in Langley, Washington, USA. He is working on projects which look at animals as people, people as animals, and the planet as a very small place. His pictures are reality-based, and he enjoys finding the amazing hidden in the ordinary.
His work is in collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Park Service and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
A former photojournalist, Horan has published his work in Smithsonian, LIFE, Time, The New York Times Magazine, and numerous other magazines. He was based in Chicago from 1976 to 2006, whence he traveled to assignments worldwide. He has been artist in residence at Glacier National Park; staff photographer for Chicago in the Year 2000; contract photographer for U.S. News and World Report; and staff photographer for the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.