One of the few photographers of his generation whose entire professional body of work is in color, he has contributed to National Geographic Society publications since 1964 as a staff, free-lance and contract photographer and writer. Over his career at National Geographic, Allard has contributed to 42 articles as a photographer as well as a number of National Geographic books. He has written eight articles for the magazine. His most recent articles for the Magazine are "Rodeos: Behind the Chutes," “India’s Untouchables,” “The Marais of Paris,” and “Bollywood,” “Hunters,” and “Hutterite Soujourn,” and “Hunters.” In addition to National Geographic, Allard has been published in most major USA and European publications and has photographed in about 25 countries. The son of a Swedish immigrant, Allard was born in Minneapolis in 1937 and studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota.