Larry Yust

Larry Yust was born in Philadelphia, grew up in suburbs of New York and Chicago, graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Theater Arts, and has lived in Los Angeles for many years.  He worked briefly in theater as a lighting and set designer and as an occasional singer, then moved into television and motion pictures where he has worked as a writer, director and producer. He began a parallel career as a still photographer in the 1990s and developed his technique of producing Photographic Elevations in 2000 in order to create a visual record of the walls of Paris Metro stations.  He is married, with three children and four grandchildren.