John Deyto
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John Francis Deyto (born 1972) is an American photographer.
John Deyto was born in San Francisco, California. He credits his photographic sensibilities to the suburb where he grew up, Westlake in Daly City, CA. It was in this neighborhood (the first Suburb of San Francisco), built by Henry Doelger, that John met the scratch DJ’s that would later influence his work. He moved to Pasadena, California to study photography under Paul Jasmin at the Art Center College of Design. He has photographed Fashion and Music for clients, such as Levi’s, Cigna Health Net, Tommy Boy Records, Capitol Records, Thud Rumble, Dirt Style, RayGun Magazine, Detour Magazine, SOMA Magazine, Bikini Magazine, XLR8R, Nylon, Jane Magazine, Flaunt, FHM (UK). In 2001, along with the screening of DJ Qbert's “Wave Twisters”, Deyto, a Filipino-American, showed “Nineteen DJ’s” (19 portraits of the world’s most Influential DJ’s) at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Deyto’s portrait subject include Metallica, Primus, Angela Davis, Luisito Espinosa, Jason Mecier, Naut Humon, Joe Clausell, Roni Size, and DJS: X-Men, The Invisible Skratch Piklz, The Beat Junkies, P-Trix, Radar, DJ Qbert, DJ Flare, DJ Aladdin, DJ Cash Money, D-Styles, P-Trix, A-Track, Scratch Perverts, and YogaFrog.
He currently is an Art Director at an Internet company, and is part-time faculty at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.
