Ken Werner is an American photographer, writer and editor with a career of more than fifty years. In 1976 he moved from New York’s Lower East Side to San Francisco, where he co-founded the magazine Darkroom Photography and served as its editorial director. He also worked as a consultant to the publisher Re/Search and as a freelance travel writer and photographer.
From 1976 to 1980 he photographed San Francisco’s adult Halloween celebrations. He self-published the pictures in 1981 as Halloween: A Fantasy in Three Acts, which became an underground classic and was reissued by Anthology Editions in 2024. He now divides his time between the United States and Australia.
