1956: Born in Greenwich CT; grew up in New Canaan, CT.
1974-1976: attended American University in Washington D.C., studied political science
1976-81: left American University, traveled the United States and lived in various cities; Los Angeles, San Diego, Boulder, Burlington, Cambridge
1981: moved to NYC and resumed studies at Columbia University, studied American literature
1981: bought first camera at the age of 25 and began photographing on streets on New York.... studied with Lisette Model at The New School in NYC.
1981-82: Photo Editor and Chief Photographer at Columbia Daily Spectator at Columbia University
1982: Chief Photographer, New Canaan Advertiser, New Canaann, Ct.
1984-84: assisted fashion, corporate and editorial photographers in NYC
1983-89 continued to photograph on streets of NYC and began to do assignment work for Forbes, Business Week and Fortune.
1991: hired by The New York Times, Staff Photographer
1992: started photographing "VOWS," the weekly wedding column, with writer, Lois Smith Brady
-1993-2002: faculty, The International Center of Photography, NYC .
1995: one-man exhibition of photographs, "Weddings," at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France
1997: published wedding pictures in "VOWS: Weddings of the Nineties,"
1998: one-man photo exhibition,"VOWS," Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL
1998: one-man photo exhibition, "Exile New York," Leica Gallery, NYC
2000: traveled cross-country for The New York Times Magazine to photograph Route 66, later nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by The New York Times
1991 through 2001: nominated for eleven Pulitzer Prizes and won the Pulitzer Prize with Times' Metro staff for the project, "Race in America," photographing a pork processing plant in North Carolina with writer, Charlie LeDuff
2002: won Pulitzer Prize for Photography with New York Times for 9/11
2003: left The New York Times to resume freelance editorial career and commercial weddings: link to EdwardKeatingWeddings.Com
2004: currently a member of Contact Press Images, photo agency based in NYC
-work represented in both private and public collections, including the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and the International Center of Photography.
