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Image Archives:
• History & Ancient Culture
• Human Evolution
• Egypt
• North America
• Central & South America
• Europe, Africa & Asia

 
Ken peering from behind his camera at Abdos, on assigment in Egypt.
 

EDUCATION

1976
Bachelor of Arts with distinction, in Anthropology, The University of Virginia.

1970 & 1972
University of Missouri Photojournalism workshops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1976 to Present
Independent photographer specializing in Archaeology, Paleontology and ancient cultures worldwide. A partial list of magazine credits includes National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian, Air and Space, Archaeology, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Life, Audubon, Geo Germany, National Wildlife and Natural History. Corporate clients include IBM, Marriott Corporation, UNC Aviation, Starbucks Coffee.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY MAGAZINE ARTICLES

December, 1976 Square-rigger Voyage from Baltic to Bicentennial (Tall Ships)
November, 1983 Artifice and Art (Duck Decoys)
June, 1987 George Washington's Patowmack Canal (Potomac River)
October, 1989 La Ruta Maya
October, 1989 Copan: A Royal Tomb Discovered
October, 1989 City of Kings & Commoners (Copan)
September, 1991 Maya Artistry Unearthed (Copan)
November, 1992 Maya Heartland Under Seige (Remote Imaging)
June, 1993 The Iceman (Ice Age Humans Body)
September, 1993 New Sensors Eye the Rain Forest
November, 1993 New Light on the Olmec
January, 1995 Age of Pyramids (Egypt's Old Kingdom)
September, 1995 Dawn of Humans: The Farthest Horizon (Leakey homonid Find)
December, 1995 The Timeless Vision of Teotihuacan (Teotihuacan)
January, 1996 Dawn of Humans: Neandertals
February, 1997 Dawn of Humans: The First Steps
May, 1997 Dawn of Humans: Expanding worlds
July, 1997 Dawn of Humans: The First Europeans
September, 1997 Dawn of Humans: Tracking the First of Our Kind
October, 1997 The Most Ancient Americans (Monte Verde)
December, 1997 The Royal Crypts of Copan
August, 1998 Dawn of Humans: Redrawing Our Family Tree
September, 1998 Valley of the King's (Egypt)
November, 1998 Abu Sir Tomb (Egypt)
April, 1999 Journey to the Ice Age Humans
October, 1999 Valley of the Mummies (Greco-Roman Mummies, Egypt)
May, 2000 Dawn of Humans: New Finds in South Africa
July, 2000 Dawn of Humans: People Like Us (Neandertal )
December, 2000 Dawn of Humans: Hunt for the First Americans
February, 2001 Paintings of the Spirit
March, 2001 Moche Burials Uncovered
April, 2001 Pharaohs of the Sun
September, 2001 Egyptian Tombs, Ancient Burials Uncovered
November, 2001 Pyramids, Who Built Them?
April, 2002 Yucatan Hill Cities
April, 2002 Uncovering a Maya Mural
June, 2002 Empires Across the Andes
October, 2002 Death on The Nile
October, 2002 Dos Pilas Geographica
January, 2003 Inside Egypt's Secret Vaults
April, 2003 AguatecasNGS Traveler Magazine
Autumn, 1984 Bermuda, Sumptuous Civility
Summer, 1985 Wingding at Oshkosh (Air show)
May/June, 1989 Realm of the Long Lakes (NY Finger Lakes)
March/April, 1991 The Great Camps of the Adirondacks (NY tourism)
March/April, 1992 West Virginia's Potomac Highlands
September/October, 1993 Loudon County, Virginia

BOOKS

1981 El Templo Mayor:The great temple of the Aztecs in Mexico.
(Published in Mexico)
1986 Floaters and Stickups (Godine), A personal survey of wildfowl decoys.
1986 Washington, DC (Boulton)
1987, 2000 Wake Forest University (Harmony House)
1992 James Madison University (Harmony House)
1993 *Lost Kingdoms of the Maya (National Geographic)
1994 *Wonders of the Ancient World:Atlas of Archaeology (National Geographic)
1996 *Hallowed Ground:Preserving America's Heritage (Thomasson-Grant & Lickle)
2001 Egypt of Pharaohs (National Geographic)
2003 Hidden Treasures of the Egyptian Museum, AUC Press, Cairo
  *major contributor

EXHIBITIONS

1997 "Hallowed Ground" photos at Smithsonian Museum
1999 Copan Photos at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

PERSONAL

Born Kenneth Lewis Garrett, September 23, 1953, Columbia, Missouri. Currently lives in Broad Run, Virginia with his wife, Lucie, and their two girls, Kate and Julie.

 
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