Eric Kayne was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and took his first photography class in sixth grade.
After high school, he led a vagabond academic life that took him to the University of California Santa Barbara, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Collin County Community College, Austin Community College and finally the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a BA in studio art.
In 1999, he moved to New York City and interned at Magnum Photos, Inc. and then followed up with a summer job at the Maine Photographic Workshops as the E-6 process manager. He later attended San Antonio College where he discovered and fell in love with photojournalism.
After a year and a half at two small-town Texas newspapers, he moved to a small beach village in Marin County, California where he drove milk truck for an organic creamery, and freelanced for the Marin Independent Journal. Living in the Bay Area inspired him to continue his photographic education through workshops and classes at the City College of San Francisco. After two years, he left to attend the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, eventually earning his MA in photography.
After Ohio, he interned at the San Antonio Express-News, the Seattle Times and The Dallas Morning News. He eventually found a contract staff position at the Houston Chronicle. Laid off after 13 months, he has been a freelance independent photographer ever since.
He now splits his time between editorial and commercial assignments, while creating as much time as possible for personal projects. His clients include Arcade Fire, The Wall Street Journal, Houston Methodist Hospital System, BBVA Compass Bank, H.E.B., and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Now residing in Oakland, California, his wife, Carrie Feibel, is the health editor for the NPR affiliate KQED in San Francisco. They have a four-year old daughter, Joni.
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