Kent Horner

In March of 2000 an opportunity existed for me to seek a more rewarding challenge while pursuing my passion and chosen career, photography, by leaving San Diego and moving to Salt Lake City, Utah.  At the time I was a single 30-year-old freelance photographer having worked the previous 7 years as a stringer photographer for the AP San Diego Bureau and for Sports Illustrated Magazine as an independent contractor working as a nationally traveled, portrait lighting technician and general assistant for staff photographers.  From 1995-2000 I spent  an average 190 days a year on the road covering assignments  ranging from Super Bowls and Final Fours to portraits of  Sigfried and Roy  in Las Vegas  and  Denis Rodman in Chicago. I also freelanced as a photographer for the San Diego Padres during their 1997 and 1998 seasons where I documented  Ken Caminiti's  MVP season, the  final years of Hall of Fame Inductee  Tony Gwynn's  playing career,  and the teams trip to the World Series against the New York Yankees. 

At the time Utah and the Salt Lake City market provided an opportunity for me to live in the 2002 Winter Olympic host city photographing international winter sporting competition while pursuing a photojournalism career.  Being the State Capitol, Salt Lake City consistently produced local political and randomly peculiar world-news assignments from wire services and national news publications.  These photojournalism assignments supplemented the seasonality of primarily covering international sporting events during the winter months. I also had the extraordinary opportunity to work for 5 seasons as the contracted team photographer for the NBA Utah Jazz.  The specific goal of changing my career path at the time was to work the Olympics for Sports Illustrated and document digitally for the NBA the final playing years and retirement of future NBA Hall of Fame Inductees John Stockton and Karl Malone and the re-building process of a once great NBA franchise.

Now after 6 extremely successful years based in Salt Lake City working as a freelance sports photographer and photojournalist, I have begun living year-round again in beautiful Southern California.  Being raised in Orange County, graduating from San Diego State University, being a home owner in La Jolla, and recently married at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, it is time to return my business to California where it started.  Doing so I have rediscovered a connection to the passion I have for photography.  A passion that is based on my desire to create the finest portraits and images within my ability, and most importantly, to work with and to produce images for a client that appreciates the art of beautiful photography. 

Working  as  a  photojournalist at such high levels of professionalism, in ever-changing working environments, has provided me with photographic skills  and  techniques based on real-life experiences and knowledge. The importance and immediacy of editorial assignment work in modern day digital photojournalism can manifest itself into a daily  "most-important-day-in-the-world" mentality.   It would be an honor to photograph your wedding to capture  your "most-important-day-in-the-world" by creating images that can be  shared  with  family  and  friends  for  years  and  generations to come.