Lou Lesko

Lou is a fashion photographer who began writing about the photography industry in 2004 for Digital Photo Pro magazine. An irreverent style of writing and a best selling book about the advertising photography world, Advertising Photography: A Straightforward Guide to a Complex Industry, paved the way for Lou to become the managing editor of the National Geographic Assignment Blog.

He is a graduate of the English writing program at the University of Southern California. Lou is also the founder of Blinkbid business software for photographers, and a contributor to the Resolve Blog. Lou lives in California splitting his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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