Marc Cartwright

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Marc Cartwright is an American celebrity portrait photographer who runs a photography studio based in West Hollywood, California. He is known for portraits of film and television actors.

Cartwright was born on January 15, 1975 in Orange, New Jersey and raised in Riverhead, New York. ^[1]. In 1997, Cartwright graduated from New York University where he studied semantics and the relationship between media and society. During his last semester of attending NYU, Cartwright discovered photography through fulfilling an art requirement associated with his Bachelor of Science degree. ^[2] Cartwright appeared in commercials and print ads for such clients as Coca Cola, Arrid and Tommy Hilfiger. In 2002, he appeared on the cover of Instinct Magazine's 5th anniversary issue^[3] where he began paying particular attention to the production side of image making.^[4]

Marc Cartwright's work has been published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan (magazine), Seventeen (magazine), OK!^[5] and People (magazine) to name a few. Cartwright has appeared on MTV as a featured photographer and has photographed movie posters and DVD covers for various films.^[6]

Celebrities photographed by Cartwright include Penn Badgley, Rena Sofer, Svetlana Metkina, Erik King, Reid Scott (My Boys), Kaitlin Olson, Clifton Powell and Naturi Naughton.