ABOUT

Patrick Ecclesine is a portrait photographer / director / author born and raised in Los Angeles. He's shot over 100 publicity and advertising campaigns for the film and television industry and is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair Magazine.

Patrick is currently working on Los Angeles' skid row where he has interviewed and photographed one hundred homeless subjects for his photo-documentary Skid Row Diaries. This project is an extension of his ground-breaking Faces of Sunset Boulevard - A Portrait of Los Angeles which was named the top photography book in 2009 and for which Patrick tied with Annie Leibovitz to share first place at the 2009 SCIBA book awards. Faces of Sunset Boulevard established an innovative photo-documentary format that juxtaposed portraits with interviews. This format would be deployed four years later to great effect in the Humans of New York series.

Patrick loves movies, books, cooking and surfing. For the past three years he's been living in Maui, Joshua Tree, and in Laurel Canyon in a hundred year old house with a pickleball court where he frequently skateboards as he envisions himself surfing perfect waves.

CLIENTS
Amazon. Dreamworks. FOX. NBC. Warner Brothers. Paramount. Sony Pictures. Showtime. Lifetime. Amblin Entertainment. Lionsgate. Bloomberg. CNN. TNT. TBS, CBS. CW. A&E. Epix. Universal Music. Leica. BMW. RPM. Honda Motorcycles. The Alzheimer's Foundation. Hewlett Packard. Esquire. Vanity Fair. British GQ. Demi Lovato. Patricia Cornwell. Lori Grenier and others.

BOOK / AWARDS / EXHIBITION

2020 Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling – The Stars, the Parties, and the Powerbrokers. (The Annenberg, Century City, VF Group Exhibit)

2012 SLOW KISS - A Neo Noir Narrative told in Still Frames. (208 Pages by Go-Faster / Highwire Productions) Collaboration with Daniel Sackheim, Executive Producer of True Detective and director of Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Ozark, House, The Americans, Lie to Me, Better Call Saul, and The X Files.

2009 Faces of Sunset Boulevard – A Portrait of Los Angeles (225 Pages, Santa Monica Press)

The Top Photography Book of 2009 Shutterbug Magazine

Art & Design Award shared with Annie Leibovitz’s At Work to win Top Prize at the 2009 SCIBA Book Awards.

"Stark, startling color images represent a leap forward in social-documentary photography...one of the strongest statements about man’s dark fate in the West ever committed to paper.”       —POP MATTERS    

"Ecclesine's emphasis is on the people, not the street. And he's got an eye for a magazine-like, flattering beauty: Everyone glows.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES

2010 Arclight Hollywood, Solo Exhibition

2010 LA City Hall, Solo Exhibition

2009 Rathuas Berlin, Germany, Group Exhibition