Gary Kieffer

Gary L. Kieffer has nearly 40 years of extensive international photographic experience. He began his photographic career in the U.S. Army. He is a graduate of the DOD Advanced Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University.

 

Kieffer was a staff photographer for U.S. News and World Report, and has contributed to Time, Newsweek, USA Today, LA Times, Stern and Der Speigel among others. He has covered combat in Central America and the Persian Gulf, fashion in Paris and New York, provided coverage of every President since Nixon, and photographs for major commercial advertising clients as well.

 

Kieffer was the editor of International Defense Images, the founder of the Foto Consortium photo agency and Vice-President/Operations of Photo Press Intl. before moving to Switzerland in 1999. Kieffer was recalled into the U.S. Army in 2002. He was the military photo editor for the Day in the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces book project and served as a photojournalist with Special Forces in Kurdistan during the initial months of the Iraqi invasion.

 

Since retiring from the Army in 2005, Kieffer has worked as a photojournalist for EURArmy magazine, was the editor of the base newspaper The Outlook in Vicenza, Italy and is now semi-retired and working as a freelance photojournalist and photo consultant and working in the vineyards near his home in Piemonte, Italy.