Keith Birmingham is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in sports, editorial and portrait photography. He has been a staff photographer for 16 years with the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, part of Media News Group which consists of the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News and Media News Wire Service. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Nashville Tennessean, GQ, Life Magazine, Sporting News, Los Angeles Dodgers Magazine, National Sports Daily, Daily Breeze, Long Beach Press Telegram and Orange County Register along with wire services Associated Press and United Press International, and the books Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach by Kenneth Kobre, and Out of the Blue by Joe Haakenson, the story of the 2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels.

An award winning photographer, including awards from National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles, California Press Photographers Association, he has also won Picture of the Year from SportsShooter.com and been nominated for three Pulitzer Prize awards. Keith has covered 16 Rose Bowl games, four Men's Basketball Final Four's , two Women's Basketball Final Four's, two Major League Baseball World Series, the Super Bowl, four NBA Finals, two Women's World Cups, one Men's World Cup, and many other sporting events throughout the United States. He has also covered Hurricane Katrina and many major California wildfires.