Ken Carl (born Edmund Ken Carl April 4, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois) is a documentary photographer based in Chicago. He studied photography at Columbia College Chicago and works with photo-based digital imaging as his principal means of creating images for corporate, documentary, editorial and educational programs.
In 2003, Ken Carl took part in a 21-day project in Tanzania Africa as a documentary photographer for Climb for Kids program to capture a cultural and technology exchange program with high school students from Chicago installing the first ever computer lab in a secondary school in Tanzania.