Ian Clark is the former Manager of NASA's Photographic Section at the Langley Research Center, as well as the owner or operator of several commercial photo labs. Along the way, he processed something over 10,000 miles of E-6 slide film, several thousand miles of color negative, VNF news film, and black and white films, along with something like 600 acres of photo paper.
Ian's career as a photographer started in 1975 when, as a sophomore in high school, he started shooting for his local newspaper. By 1979, he'd gotten his first national magazine cover of TRAINS Magazine. These days, he shoots for editorial, stock and commercial users from his home in West Newbury, VT. Ian's work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, newspapers, calendars and print ads.
In addition to taking on projects that use photography as an engineering tool, Ian has built a library of over 1,000,000 images, with many transportation and nature images. His transportation focus is on railroads. He is working on photographing all the remaining steam locomotives in the US. He has a good start. Of roughly 200 locomotives that can be operated, Ian has photographed 127 under steam.
In the last several years, Ian has found time to pursue his other love: nature photography. He has photographed over 350 species from the Bay of Fundy to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Ian's other interests include receiving a B.S. in Photo Finishing & Management from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and meeting his editor and wife, Lee, while in graduate school at The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
