Ken Schles (born 1960) is an American photographer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York.
After continuing his studies at the New School for Social Research, he worked as a printer for a number of Magnum Photos photographers.
[6][7] In The Geometry of Innocence (2001) Schles' focus is on the shifting of social structures and spaces that mark the urban landscape.
The works in The Geometry of Innocence address the immediacy and relativity of meaning in the photographic image and how they shape societies' perception of the world around them.
In it Schles explores different versions of focus to tell a photographic-narrative of 1980's life in the Lower East Side of New York City.