However, he tends to specializes in portrait and fashion photography. When Ken Black is not photographing, he is dancing West Coast Swing or tinkering on things, trying to figure out how to make things work. That is the chemical engineer in him. His artistic views were expounded upon when he was formally trained at Austin Community College's Professional Photography Program. Ken Black is open to all genres of photography, but his favorite areas of photography are fashion, portraiture and glamour photography.