Born in 2001, Ryan Bernhardt is an American photographer with a passion for long-term documentary projects. Raised across Southeast Asia, he spent his formative years developing a fascination with storytelling. Spurred by his faith, his work seeks to display the unifying similarities across humanity and the sea of cultural differences.
After many years in Central Java, he moved to the coastal island of Penang, Malaysia in 2015. There he would begin his career in photography as well as television acting after completing his secondary education.
In 2021 he traveled to the United States where he is currently based in Seattle, Washington.