Gary. In a photo journalism or course here at ut. Would you talk about a all that influenced your career . Its funny. I was actually a biology major. At university of texas. And also at the dorms. At chester dorm. Which i just visited today. 30 years later. Hasnt changed a bit. And one of my residents at chester sold me one of his older cameras. I guess he was convinced his parents to get him a new one. And i just became very interested in photography as hobby. And decided to take courses as an elective. And convince dentally signed up for first year journalism. Even though i wasnt even thinking about photo journalism. Or knew what it was. It was a first year photo class. I took the course and toward the end of the semester, the ta said lucian theres an opening on the Student Newspaper cactus yearbook. You should go apply. And i never even thought about photographing as a career. I went and applied. And got the job. And the very day i got the job i said oh my god this is what i want to
Graduated high school. I was drafted, went into the air force and they said youre going to be a photographer and thats what i did. Why was that . They said well, at the time, this is 1967, vietnam wars going on, i was drafted, i didnt want to go to the army so i joined the air force. The air force did the aerial photo over North Vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. So all the guys, 500 guys, its called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, Lab Processing and still photography. Im valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the list. And i was assigned to the 836combat support group at mcgill air force base in tam pa florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. I, at 18yearold was photographing three and fourstar generals in meetings and ceremonies. So at a very early point in my photography career was photoing highle
Gary. In a photo journalism or course here at ut. Would you talk about a all that influenced your career . Its funny. I was actually a biology major. At university of texas. And also at the dorms. At chester dorm. Which i just visited today. 30 years later. Hasnt changed a bit. And one of my residents at chester sold me one of his older cameras. I guess he was convinced his parents to get him a new one. And i just became very interested in photography as hobby. And decided to take courses as an elective. And convince dentally signed up for first year journalism. Even though i wasnt even thinking about photo journalism. Or knew what it was. It was a first year photo class. I took the course and toward the end of the semester, the ta said lucian theres an opening on the Student Newspaper cactus yearbook. You should go apply. And i never even thought about photographing as a career. I went and applied. And got the job. And the very day i got the job i said oh my god this is what i want to
Graduated high school. I was drafted, went into the air force and they said youre going to be a photographer and thats what i did. Why was that . They said well, at the time, this is 1967, vietnam wars going on, i was drafted, i didnt want to go to the army so i joined the air force. The air force did the aerial photo over North Vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. So all the guys, 500 guys, its called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, Lab Processing and still photography. Im valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the list. And i was assigned to the 836combat support group at mcgill air force base in tam pa florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. I, at 18yearold was photographing three and fourstar generals in meetings and ceremonies. So at a very early point in my photography career was photoing highle
Photojournalism or photography course here at ut. We do you talk about how that has influenced your career . Mr. Perkins it is funny, i was actually a biology major at the university of texas. Also at the chester dorms, this is it today, 30 years later. It has not changed a bit. At chesteresidents solely one of his older cameras. I guess he convinced his parents to get him a new one, so he sold me his old one. I became very interested in photography as a hobby. And then decided to take photography courses as an elective. And coincidently, signed up for a first year of photojournalism, even though i was not even photojournalism or even frankly know what it was. It was a firstyear photo class. I took the course and towards the end of the semester, the ta said, there is an opening on the student newspaper, cactus yearbook. You should apply for it. I never thought about photography as a career. I said, that should be fun. I went and applied. I got the job. The very day i got the job, i sai