Bisbee Arizona Photographer Larry Elkins
Fine Art Photography

Biography

Larry Elkins’ fine art photography spans nearly three decades.  Born in Bisbee, Ariz. in 1952, he began making photographs in the early 1980s on a Minolta manual focus SLR camera.

For many years Elkins specialized in black and white photography.  Currently, he uses a Canon Rebel XSi and multiple editing programs to produce high-resolution digital prints. Elkins’ subject matter is extensive including nature, wildlife, landscapes, travel, nudes, portraits and macro.

His work has been featured in several one man and group gallery shows, and his photographs can be found in numerous individual and corporate collections.

Now retired from a 31-year career in government service, Elkins is a founding member of BizzArt Gallery, an artists’ cooperative, located in Bisbee, Ariz., on historic Brewery Gulch — an area once known as the most notorious street in the Old West.

Elkins served as the official (2007 season) photographer for the Copper Kings, a semi-professional local baseball team and for the 2007 and 2008 Bisbee Kiwanis charity golf tournament held at the Turquoise Valley Golf Club in Naco, Ariz. He is also the official photographer for the American Cancer Society's Bisbee Arizona Relay for Life charity cancer walk.

Elkins was employed as a contributing photographer for the Western Forum Newspaper.  His work also appeared in La Vita Buena Magazine.  In addition, Elkins designed, wrote and illustrated the promotional pamphlet for the Bisbee Restoration Museum.

In May 2009, Elkins is scheduled to spend a week in Ecuador photographing beaches, the rainforest and the Andes.