Mitch Kern is a Canadian/American photographer whose work explores the social landscape through constructed and observational portraiture.  

COUPLES investigates how partners negotiate power within intimate relationships, FACES examines the face as a socially constructed site of meaning shaped by culture, MASKED considers social belonging and the performance of identity in suburban environments (on the edge of the Western Canadian wild), and TIME MACHINE plays with disorientation produced by temporal displacement. 

Born and raised primarily in New York and Los Angeles, he's a dual Canadian/American citizen who's lived in Calgary for the past 20 years. He holds a BA from the University of Maryland and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. 

His work has been featured in fifty+ group exhibitions, ten solo shows, and he's received numerous, grants, awards, commissions, and artist residencies.