Huntington Witherill is a fine art photographer who lives on the Monterey Peninsula in California. He was born in 1949 in Syracuse, New York. His family moved to California in 1953.
He entered college as a music major in 1968 and planned to become a concert pianist. His career in fine art photography began in 1970. In the early 1970s he studied photography with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch and Al Weber.
He works in black and white and in color. His subjects include landscapes, botanical still life and urban architecture. He used a view camera from 1970 to about 1995 and has worked digitally since 1995. He also developed a digital collage method that combines sketching, drawing and photography, used in the series Enigmata.
His work has been shown in more than one hundred exhibitions worldwide. He has published Orchestrating Icons (LensWork Publishing, 2000), Botanical Dances (LensWork Publishing, 2001) and Photo Synthesis (self-published, 2010). In 1999 the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California, named him Artist of the Year. He has taught photography since 1975.
