I began my photographic career as an enlisted Army combat photographer in Vietnam, which led to an entirely unexpected battlefield promotion to second lieutenant and thence to a military career, mostly in public affairs. This led to a decade in freelance photojournalism, then a segue into magazine journalism, to 14 nonfiction books, a produced screenplay and a few novels. But all the while, even as I created imagery in words, I continued to express my fascination with images. I had long admired the street photographers of the early 20th Century, especially Cartier-Bresson, Eisenstadt, Orkin...more
