John Deyto

John Francis Deyto is an American photographer.

Born in San Francisco, California, his early work was strongly influenced by the scratch DJ’s that later became his clients. 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, and FHM (UK).

In 2001, along with the screening of DJ Qbert's “Wave Twisters”, he 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 subjects include Metallica, Primus, Angela Davis, Luisito Espinosa, Jason Mecier, Naut Humon, Joe Clausell, Roni Size, and DJ's The X-Ecutioners, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, The Beat Junkies, Radar, DJ Qbert, DJ Flare, DJ Aladdin, DJ Cash Money, D-Styles, P-Trix, A-Track, Scratch Perverts, and YogaFrog.