About Paul Westlake
What matters to me is the dream.
For over four decades, I have pursued photographs that endure — images with narrative, atmosphere, and a timeless quality that remain long after fashion, trends, and visual gimmicks have passed.
Paul Westlake is a New York–based fashion and portrait photographer. Born in England and raised in Australia, he began his career in Sydney in 1985, working with leading publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Marie Claire, and GQ, before relocating to New York in 1996.
Since then, Westlake has built an international practice spanning fashion, portraiture, editorial, and advertising. His photographs are distinguished by an intuitive use of light, a cinematic sensibility, and an enduring belief that the strongest images reveal something beyond what is immediately visible.
In 2025, Westlake was commissioned by the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to photograph the two publications accompanying its 2026 exhibition, Costume Art: the illustrated catalogue by Andrew Bolton, published by The Met and distributed by Yale University Press, and the limited-edition deluxe publication The Body Electric.
Westlake is also a founding collaborator and co-producer of Pan & The Dream, the collectible art and style publication created with Nathalie Agussol. His monograph, Postcards from a Dream, brings together photographs spanning more than three decades of his archive.