Kerik Kouklis is a fine art photographer who has been creating handmade photographs since he was 12. Born and raised in California with a background in music and geology, Kerik combines a contemporary eye with 19th, 20th and 21st century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. He has used these processes since 1990 and has been teaching workshops in them since 1997. Kerik’s travels have taken him to Iceland, Scotland, Norway, the Galapagos, Mongolia and Japan. He has adopted the use of a drone to make aerial photographs on his travels. In 2016 Kerik was awarded a two-week Artist in Residency in Yosemite National Park. In 2017 Kerik completed his first documentary film “Mongolia in Winter”. Inspired by the work of Chris Jordan, Kerik began exploring creating mandalas from his photographs during the Covid pandemic in 2020. His prints are held in private, corporate and museum collections in North America and Europe.