Born in the Chicagoland area, photographer Ryan Schude moved to California in 1997 to pursue a business degree at St. Mary's College. Realizing that corporate America wasn't going to satisfy him, he attended the San Francisco Art Institute and briefly studied photography before moving to San Diego to shoot freelance.

Now living and working out of the Forge Studio in Los Angeles, Schude shoots editorial portraiture and is busy developing a series of narrative tableaux. This fall, Ryan and his brother Collins will release a short film called Bunny Suits.