Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1943, moved to the US in the 1950’s and entered Shimer College on a Ford Foundation Early Entrant Program in 1960. An early fascination for journalism began with meeting John Kennedy and interviewing Richard Nixon on the campaign trail in 1960, for the Shimer College newspaper, Quest, and editing the yearbook Acropolis in 1962.

Worked at Progressive Engraving in Winnipeg and taught at Major Pratt Collegiate in Russell, Manitoba. Graduate work in History and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Moved to San Francisco for the Summer of Love in 1967.

One of the original photographers for Rolling Stone in the late 1960's, became a Black Star photographer after the first Newsweek cover in 1969 and continued to work for Newsweek and the New York Times as well as the Washington Post, Der Speigle, Der Stern, Epoca and other publications. Founded and ran Image Point, a West Coast photographic agency until taking a top staff position at Associated Press, San Francisco.

By the 1980’s was working as Photographic Director for Chevron's Ortho Books division, directing twenty four four-colour books per season into an international market (125,000 IM per book). A 2^nd Dan black belt and instructor in Wado Karate, continued working on book titles as Photographic Director for Northrup, King & Co. gardening series and others while running a photo studio in San Francisco until family matters brought a return to Winnipeg in the 1990’s. While in Winnipeg worked as Senior Editor for Interchange Magazine, Editor of Winnipeg Homes and Publisher and cofounder of Style Manitoba. Currently working in the US on books for Black & Decker and teaching digital photography in the Multimedia Department of Vista College in Berkeley, California.

A number of published books include People's Park (Ballantine, 1969) and Black Mesa, the Angel of Death (John Day & Co, 1972). Work in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress .

Married in 1963 to fellow Shimer student Carol Jean Karger, four children and two grandchildren.

This web is still a work in progress as I am still digitizing forty years of photography, starting from the beginning, and throwing a few new shots in to show that this is not a posthumous work.