Bil Zelman is an American photographer and director known for his powerful, candid portraiture and spontaneous, photojournalistic style.

[1] Zelman developed a highly stylized form of hard-flash street photography while in art school[2] and Los Angeles Times art critic Leah Ollman compares the "psychological density"[3] of his work to the likes of Garry Winogrand, Larry Fink, Diane Arbus and William Klein- photographers that are "purposely getting it wrong in one way so as to get it right in another, disrupting visual order to ignite a kind of visceral disorder".

"Equally striking as it is meaningful, this powerful work is a critical reminder that the alarms are not ringing loudly enough for many of us to hear" stated Alexandra Cousteau.

Zelman published Isolated Gesture in 2013, a collection of highly stylized black and white street photography.

[6] The book was chosen for an Art Directors Club award by Albert Watson,[7] Artweek portrays Isolated Gesture as "a cross between S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Dutch genre painting".