Richard Todd is a native of California who earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree in publication design from California Institute of the Arts. He taught photography while working on his degree. In his final year at Cal Arts Richard earned the prestigious LA Art Director's Award for his now famous picture of a computer with an axe chopping it in half expressing the sense of frustration that many early computer users experienced every day of their lives. Richard worked as the senior photographer at Mattel Toys for 5 years & UCLA's Museum of Cultural History for 9 years, when he started photographing Tattoo Art for the book, "The Marks of Civilization," edited by the late Arnold Ruben. While working on that project Richard was introduced to the wonderful people at the prestige National Tattoo Association in 1986 where he continues to donate his time at there national yearly convention. Richard Todd has also been the senior photographer at International Tattoo Art Magazine from the time it began in 1991until 2002. Richard Todd photography is a full service photographic and stock agency. He is one of the most sought after photographers of art in the United States and has traveled the world photographing art for some of this countries most highly respected publishers, including Harry Abrams, Reader's Digest, Rizzoli, Harcourt-Brace, Friedman Fairfax now Barnes & Noble publishers and the presses of the Universities of California, New Mexico and Washington. His photographs are in private and museum collections in Europe, America, Australia, and Japan. For more information, please email Richard.

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