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

COUPLES FOLDING LAUNDRY investigates how partners negotiate power within intimate relationships, FACE VALUE examines the face as a socially constructed site of meaning shaped by culture, MASKED explores social belonging and the performance of identity in Western Canada, and TIME TRAVELLER plays with the distortion of time through temporal displacement. 

Born and raised in New York City and a dual citizen of Canada and the US, his work has been featured in fifty+ group exhibitions, ten solo shows, and he's received numerous, grants, awards, and artist residencies. 

He holds a BA from the University of Maryland and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University.