UNITED STATES

Born and raised in New York City, Shelley Katz sold his first pictures to the New York Daily News at the age of twelve, and since then, his photos have been published world-wide. He has received numerous awards, lectured on college capuses and to civic and professional groups throughout the world. In the course of his career, he worked on the last issue of Life magazine when it was a weekly, served as a contributing editor to People Weekly magazine when it was founded and as a contract photographer for Time. He is also a veteran of several Day in the Life projects -- both as a photographer and editor. He has covered every major U.S. presidential candidate since 1959, national political conventions, inaugurations of the Presidents of the U.S., Super Bowls, oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska, turmoil in the Middle East, the banana plantations of Costa Rica, coal mines in Italy, wars, riots, hurricanes, eathquakes, volcano eruptions, Hollywood starlets and Benji. Additionally, he has served as a special advisor on photography to the U.S. astronauts at the request of NASA. As a spokesman for photojournalists, Katz served as founding vice president and member of the board of directors of the World Wide Publishing Consortium and has recently retired from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas after serving his fifth term as a member of the board of directors. He is currently on the Professional Advisory Council for the Journalism Department of the University of North Texas.