Ian Grant Photography is a full-service photography company.
We specialize in wedding photography, fine art printing, and are located in the greater Los Angeles area.
BIO:
Ian’s story starts in 1981 when he was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Soon after, his family moved to Dartmouth, Massachusetts. When he was five, a family friend handed him his first camera and he spent the next few years of his childhood taking pictures of landscapes, cows, and the general goings-on of his daily life [mostly tramping through corn fields].
In middle school, Ian picked up a video camera, and found movie-making to be more socially acceptable than other forms of mischief-making. When he was in high school, his films were reviewed in Rolling Stone Magazine, which said, “…Grant lands somewhere between Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and schlockmeister Ed Wood.” To this day, we’re still not quite sure what that really means.
Ian decided to pursue his love of documenting life by studying film and photography at Emerson College in Boston. Between classes, Ian began shooting headshots for his fellow acting students and selling his fine art prints to galleries and private collectors.
Tanya’s story starts four years later than Ian’s, when she too was born. She grew up in a Philadelphia suburb and wrote her first book in first grade. It was called, My Friend Buffy, and it was about a rabbit. It was awesome. Tanya liked seeing her name in print so she kept writing. She found this to be a socially acceptable form of mischief-making, plus it was fun.
Tanya caught the acting bug in middle school, where she joined the school play. She continued her theater involvement throughout high school, acting, directing, designing and being an all around nerd. When it came time to choose a college, Tanya decided to try her luck at Emerson, where she studied Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Theater Education, two majors with very long names.
Then one day, Ian devised a plan to celebrate the best cafeteria comment cards, and a mutual Emerson friend invited Tanya to join. Obviously Ian had been collecting the posted comment cards for the last year, and had been devising a plan to cover the cafeteria walls in them. Is it any wonder they should meet making mischief?
Soon after, Ian moved to Los Angeles, and a few years later Tanya joined him. He still owes her. They realized with their powers combined they could run a pretty darn cool business. Ian Grant Photography was born. The couple shot their first wedding a little while later and were hooked. They decided they should also get married, so they did. Ian and Tanya currently live in Los Angeles with their dog, cat, and rabbit.
Ian Grant has been featured in Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Netguide, The DIY/HGTV Networks, CNN and MSNBC. Our work was also recently featured in a Mastercard commercial.
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY:
Alamy [US, UK]
iTravelStockPhoto.com [US]
FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHY:
iNationalPark.com [national park specific]
iTravelStockPhoto.com [travel photography]
RoomKeeperSociety.com [portrait book]
WEDDING/HEADSHOT PHOTOGRAPHY:
Distinctphoto.com [los angeles/orange county, worldwide]
LA Headshots.tv [los angeles/orange county]
