Glen E. Friedman

First published as a young teenager, Glen E. Friedman came to prominence in the mid eighties with his photographs and cultural expressions of radical skateboarders and iconoclastic musicians of punk and hip-hop. Friedman is considered one of the most important photographers of his generation. Photographs has been exhibited in art galleries and museums worldwide. Original prints of his work are in the photography collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Photographic History Collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., as well as the permanent collection of the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, Washington, many institutions of higher learning and private collections globally. Almost a dozen hard cover books of his work have been published, documenting his various subjects of interest, most recently by Rizzoli Publications International in 2014. Friedman is a progressive political activist, shuns intoxicants (straight edge), and follows a strict vegan diet. In May 2012 Glen E. Friedman was inducted as an "Icon" into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame He has been a creative advisor, taking on production, writing, and direction responsibilities as well as music placement on several award winning films, some of which he has received on screen credit, others just behind the scenes.