Gary Mark Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gary Mark Smith
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 27, 1956(1956-04-27)
Age	68
Birthplace	Bethlehem
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Aries

Gary Mark Smith Biography

Gary Mark Smith is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 27, 1956 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. American photographer, best known for his experimental and creative street photographs of the aftermath of disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. He also has featured neighborhood gangs located in Rio de Janeiro and refugee camps as well as war within Congo. Democratic Republic of the Congo.

He was contacted by his famous gallery mate and neighbor He was asked by his famous neighbor and gallery mate William Burroughs to contribute perspective about childhood friend Keith Haring to a 1986 exhibition by Burroughs and Haring at the University of Kansas’ Spencer Art Museum. to give his perspective on the friendship of his childhood acquaintance Haring. Haring in a 1986 show of Burroughs along with Haring on display at Haring’s University of Kansas’ Spencer Art Museum.

In 1976 Smith was abruptly disabled during a knee operation when insufficient room for swelling was left in the cast that was applied and his nerves were crushed from three inches above the knee all the way down through his left foot. This rendered him either in agonizing pain and/or existing under the influence of powerful opioid painkillers for the rest of his life.

In 1978 while hitchhiking across the United States, Smith picked up a newspaper one morning at a truck stop outside Scottsbluff, Nebraska and was inspired by an article he read promising cheaper international airfares under the new Airline Deregulation Act. That development, when blended with an inexplicable wanderlust, compelled him to become an experimental fine art global street photographer instead of the other less exciting (more painful and less pain distracting) options left available to him.

He experienced a very difficult childhood. He experienced two times lightning strike in his teens, and once was spared from being swept a mile downstream by a river, and his mother bled to death while he was in 5th grade.

Gary Mark Smith Net Worth

Gary Mark Smith is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Mark Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He completed his journalism studies in Lawrence University. University of Kansas at Lawrence and later earned his MA through a teaching fellowship from Purdue University.

His work is part of numerous renowned private and public collections. He has also published a number of collections of street photography such as Favela de Rocinha, Brazil (2011) and GOMA the Poetry of Everyday Life on the streets of the UN Peacekeeping Mission (2016).

Gary Mark Smith (born April 27, 1956) is an American street photographer. Smith is noted for his pioneering global range and his empathetic and literal style of photography sometimes captured in extremely hazardous circumstances.

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1991- photographed the streets of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as it dissolved.

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Gary Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gary Mark Smith celebrates birthday on April 27 of every year.

Several expeditions to the Cold War inspired guerrilla wars in El Salvador and Guatemala and Nicaragua – moonlighting as a journalist for the University Daily Kansan newspaper and selling combat photography he made on the side as a freelance photographer to the Associated Press, United Press International and other agencies. His accounting of the Streets of Cold War Hot Spots garnered Smith a William Randolph Hearst Award nomination and in December 1991 American Photo magazine named Smith an American Photo Career Photographer in that publication’s first ever honors competition.