Randal Ford is an American photographer and portraitist notable for his work The Animal Kingdom, as well as his photography for Texas Monthly.
[citation needed] He graduated from Texas A&M University, where he studied business and dabbled in photography through shooting for the student newspaper.
"[4] Randal Ford began his career as a wildlife photographer with a photoshoot in a rural area of Texas, near the city of Waco, that highlighted farm life.
[9] Inspired by Richard Avedon, Randal Ford uses the aesthetic promulgated In the American West, making "Head-on portraits with a no-frills sensibility", except centered on animals, rather than on persons.
[11]The Animal Kingdom took two years to complete, with Randal Ford spending time on both commercial and editorial photography.
[12] The one hundred and fifty animals that Ford captured for this project included a brown goat,[13] mountain lion, bull, duck, chimpanzee, skunk, peacock, cheetah, great horned owl, two-toed sloth, African elephant and American buffalo, among others.