About

Shalom Ormsby is a photographer, digital artist, and director whose studio is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through both his commercial and fine art work, Shalom attempts to give visual expression to the invisible.

In 2004, Shalom collaborated with 22 other photographers to cofound Blend Images, a stock agency created “for photographers, by photographers.” Blend focuses on images that celebrate the diversity of our colorful, multicultural world. Shalom is currently serving a third year on Blend’s board of directors.

Shalom focuses on fine art work and commercial projects – stills and footage – that challenge him to visualize those mysterious things that give expression to our uniqueness and humanity.

Shalom shares a beautiful home with his partner, Sonja Drakulich, the lead singer of Stellamara, and their ridiculously adorable Chihuahua, Bodhi. In addition to Sonja, Shalom’s loves include nature, healthy living and organic eating, fine art, minimalism (a healthy antidote to the maximalism that happens in his mind), modern design & architecture, all forms of Buddhism (including Zen, Vipassana, and Tibetan), music (especially electronica, hip hop, reggae, and of course, the music of Stellamara), dancing to the aforementioned music, traveling around our beautiful and precious planet, and all things that ignite the imagination.