Will Lester is a Southern California native who grew up in Altadena and actually graduated high school in the Rose Bowl. He became a staff photographer for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in 1998 after graduating from Cal State Fullerton. He has covered nearly every event possible and excels in auto/drag racing, concerts, sports and breaking news photography. Will has won the coveted Russ Catlin Award for Motorsports Photojournalism 4 times, and was the only non-full time motorsports photojournalist in the country to do so. Will also was selected as the 2018 National Motorsports Press Associations Photographer of the Year. He loves attending and shooting rodeos, whether it’s in Cheyenne or Norco because “it is pure America.” To unwind, Will loves to travel (Wyoming/Montana and any place with warm sand between his toes are his go-to places), always with a camera in tow of course.
