Decades of Experience

Joe Lista

Todd Lista is a second generation Aiken photographer. He has benefitted from both formal training and two decades of experience working with his father Joe Lista, who established Lista's Studio here in 1953. The family experience spans 60 years of photography.

Mr. Lista is widely recognized by his peers for his ability to use light in his photographic composition to make his work distinctive. He has studied and worked abroad and throughout the United States. He regularly teaches and attends seminars in the latest advancements in the science and art of photography.

Art for the Ages

Todd Lista uses lighting, background, expression, posture, and myriad other visual details to capture just the right image with camera and lens, just as a painter uses paint colors, surface texture and brush strokes to create a feeling and an image that communicates the essence of the subject.