The heftiest photography assignment of each year for the Santa Barbara Independent is to shoot this week’s Best of Santa Barbara® issue, a sprawling showcase of which businesses, places, and people our readers voted as the tops in town. Brian Kuhlmann accepted the challenge for 2021, and he spent months capturing the happy winners with their wide, thankful smiles from the car dealers and furniture makers to restaurateurs and bartenders.
Kuhlmann, who owns Porchlight Studio on the Westside, tells us more about himself below.