Beowulf Sheehan

Beowulf Sheehan is a New-York based author portrait photographer, working in studio, on location, and remotely. His photographs have been published in the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, The New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue and been exhibited at the Dostoevsky Museum, International Center of Photography, Museum of the City of New York, and New-York Historical Society. Notable subjects photographed include Chinua Achebe, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert, Joan Didion, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, Stephen Sondheim, and Oprah Winfrey. Among his recent subjects whose books are publishing in 2022 are Jessamine Chan (for The School of Good Mothers, Simon & Schuster), Sarah Manguso (Very Cold People, Hogarth), Kris Manjapra (Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation, Scribner), Marie Rutkoski (Real Easy, Henry Holt), and Dani Shapiro (Signal Fires, Knopf).