Al Satterwhite began work­ing as a pho­tog­ra­pher for a major Florida daily while he was a stu­dent, cov­er­ing major news sto­ries in the south­east­ern United States.

After a year as the Florida Governor’s per­sonal pho­tog­ra­pher, he began a career as a free­lance pho­tog­ra­pher. Over the next 10 years he worked for nearly every major mag­a­zine, Car & Driver, Fortune, Geo, Life, Look, Money, Newsweek, People, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Time, Travel & Leisure, to name a few.

In 1980 he moved to New York to start his own pro­duc­tion com­pany and focus on adver­tis­ing. For the next 15 years, his work in adver­tis­ing was rec­og­nized for his sat­u­rated color images and his keen sense of design & com­po­si­tion. Wealthy clients such as American Express, Coca Cola, Eastman Kodak, Nikon, Porsche, Polaroid, Saab, Sony, Tuborg, Universal Studios and many more.

He was a con­sul­tant at Kodak for sev­eral years and has taught at Boston University, Brooks Institute of Photography, Hallmark Institute of Photography, ASMP, NYU/​Tisch School of the Arts, PhotoExpos in Los Angeles and New York.

His pho­tographs are part of the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Houston Fine Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the National Museum of African American History and Culture and many pri­vate collections.

In recent years, he has focused his atten­tion on film­mak­ing. He has reg­u­larly won awards as a direc­tor for his com­mer­cials, fea­ture films and short films.

He is cur­rently work­ing on sev­eral book and museum exhi­bi­tion projects.

Al Satterwhite lives in New York with his wife and his two cats.