Gary Friedman

Gary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who has traveled the world with his cameras and runs the stock image website Friedman Archives dot com. He has also written several highly-acclaimed e-books on digital imaging, all aimed at demystifying the complexities of digital cameras. He has been published in magazines, newspapers, and books worldwide, and is also Associate Editor for CameraCraft magazine in the UK, one of the last of the great printed photo magazines.

Before graduating to photography he was a rocket scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he patented the image authentication system now used in high-end digital cameras from Canon and Nikon.

Gary's best-known works are the 1988 "Peace Child in Latvia", a photojournalistic documentary about a historic exchange between Soviet and American high-school student back in the days of the cold war, and his 2003 China Blog about his adventures teaching English in China and trying to start Yet Another Business.

Gary keeps busy now with photo assignments, image licensing, writing for CameraCraft, and for his blog (which he has been maintaining since 2007!). In his spare time (Ha!) he is traveling the world offering beginning photography seminars to any city that wants it.