Owen was born in Brooklyn, raised on Staten Island, and went to school in Manhattan. He got his first camera when I was eleven and fell in love with f/2.8 and black and white film, but he also loved playing the drums – that was before it dawned on him that singing and slinging a guitar was where the action was. In his teens and 20s, he banged around in rock bands: NY, LA, SF, punk and new wave, debauchery and madness. Notable outfits included Das Blok, SVT, and the Yanks. He drifted into writing, modeling, acting, and married the sexiest gal in the room, who, it turned out, was also the smartest: she brought him back to photography.

He cut the talent agent loose, he and his wife started shooting together, and have been, successful for the last twenty-something years, including a side trip to make two award-winning documentary films.

Through it all he’s kept his hand in art: the other side of the lens. Art thrills him. It’s alive with random possibilities and moments of serendipitous wonder. It propels him to explore beyond the edge – to create new ways to see, affording the viewer the opportunity for deeper explorations that flow beyond the frame. The imagination must roam.

Owen is currently living in the desert with his wife, Christine Anthony, and a charm of beautiful and savage hummingbirds.