Born in New York in 1938, Richard Ehrlich is a surgeon and photographer. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, George Eastman House, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Denver Art Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has held over 35 exhibitions and his publications include Anatomia Digitale (2009), The Other Side of the Sky (2014), and Face the Music published by Steidl in 2016. Ehrlich is Professor Emeritus of Urological Surgery at the Center for the Health Sciences at UCLA in Los Angeles.