President Gerald R. Ford in the oval office during his second full day as the nation’s 38th chief executive. When President Ford took over from Richard Nixon the country was ready for a little less drama emanating from the White House. Ford was just the guy to deliver normalcy. One of the first pictures I […] Read More

Gerald R. Ford is sworn is as the 38th President of the United States at noon on August 9, 1974. When Gerald R. Ford assumed the presidency on August 9, 1974 he declared that, “Our long national nightmare is over.”  In the short term I suppose he was right, but his own personal nightmare began […] Read More

Column 1 Nixon looks at White House for last time as president before boarding helicopter. Column 2 Nixon departs after resigning, contact sheet Nixon resigning, and leaving the White House forty years ago today, was one of the top five stories that I’ve covered in my career as a photographer. The others, in no particular […] Read More

Here are three photos from my new book, “David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone,” that is coming out this fall. The project is my attempt to share a bit of what I’ve learned in my decades of being a professional photographer in the hope of passing along some of my techniques so that others can […] Read More

These are some of the best from friends, colleague and  my fellow Vietnam War photographers, most of them now gone:  http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/19/world/gallery/iconic-vietnam-war-photos/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook