Austin Young

Quick Facts

Full Name	Austin Young
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1966(1966-04-12)
Age	58
Birthplace	Reno
Country	United States
Birth City	Nevada
Horoscope	Aries

Austin Young Biography

Austin Young is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 12, 1966 in Reno, Nevada, United States. Photographer and filmmaker who documented the sub and trans cultures of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.

He made celebrity portraits of Oliver Stone and Simon Cowell, among others, and he directed music videos for “Jane Wiedlin” and “Jessicka.”

Since 1985, Young has been documenting pop, sub, and trans culture while playing with the themes of camp (style), celebrity, gender and identity through portrait photography and film. His portraiture subjects include Sutan Amrull, Jackie Beat, Leigh Bowery, Dame Edna, Peaches Christ, and Jeffree Star. His celebrity portrait subjects include Oliver Stone, Dick Van Dyke, Sandra Bernhard, Simon Cowell, Cassandra Peterson, Margaret Cho, Perez Hilton, Ryan Cassata and Amy Poehler. He has directed videos for Jeffree Star, Jackie Beat’s band Dirty Sanchez (band), and shot musicians like Siouxsie Sioux, Deborah Harry, Jane Wiedlin, Diamanda Galas, Jessicka, and Semi Precious Weapons.

Young is one of the creators of the open-source Tranimal Workshop events, launched in 2009 at Machine Project in Los Angeles. The concept of the Tranimal Workshop was a collaboration among Young, Squeaky Blonde and Fade- Dra, with the participation of Mathu Andersen, Jer Ber Jones, Andrew Marlin, and others. The events have taken place in museums across California, including the Berkeley Art Museum and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

He was born in Reno, Nevada.

Austin Young Net Worth

Austin Young is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Austin Young 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Beginning his photography work in 1985, he joined the Fallen Fruit art collective, which used fruit as a vehicle to change people’s preconceptions.

Exploring the issues of identity, gender, as well as pop culture and camp, he has been featured in the pages of OK! and Flaunt magazines and in exhibitions all over California.

Austin Young (born April 12, 1966) is an American photographer, film maker and new media artist currently based in Los Angeles, known for both celebrity portraits and an encyclopedic documentation of sub and trans culture in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Young is also co-founder of Fallen Fruit, an art collective that uses fruit as a common denominator for public engagement and collaboration. Young’s photographs have been featured in major publications such as Interview, OK, and Flaunt and have been shown in solo exhibitions and projects at LACMA (Los Angeles, CA), Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, California); as well as groups shows at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA) and Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles, CA).

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Facts & Trivia

Austin Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Austin Young celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.