He received his MA in Journalism in 2007 from the Missouri School of Journalism, where he studied the history and practice of multimedia photojournalism. He worked as a staff photographer and editor for the San Francisco Examiner (1982-2000) and the San Francisco Chronicle(2000-2009.) He was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for photographs of the Philippine Revolution he made while on assignment for the Examiner.