A professional photographer, for 35 years, Paul Kennedy began his career as a stringer for a high school yearbook company; a year later he was stringing for the Associated Press; two years later, he got his first assignment for Sports Illustrated. After a two-year stint (that included 5 covers) as a contract photographer, he left SI to concentrate on corporate photography. A brief pause to serve as one of the official photographers of the 1984 Olympic Games was followed by 20 years shooting corporate annual reports.

He's shot oil-drilling operations in the high Arctic, wildlife in southern Africa and just about every other subject you can imagine in between. Working primarily in 35mm, he was one of the early converts to digital. Today, a significant number of his assignments involve high-tech and medical photography, but a recent trip to Africa to shoot elephants for a research study illustrates his "go anywhere, shoot anything" attitude.

At 62, married for 37 years, with 3 grown children, he doesn't even contemplate retirement. "The toughest assignments are still the most enjoyable."

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