John Crosley

I am a photographer who has taken in the past 12 years, over est. 2 million images, mostly street, with many shown previously under various host sites to over est. 200 million counted viewers.

I practiced law very successfully in Silicon Valley, CA for nearly two decades; retiring at about age 40.

I am a graduate of NYC's Columbia College, Columbia University.

As editor/writer/photographer, I won the Lebhar-Friedman Publishing Blue Chip award for excellence in writing, editing, and photography. For law,I won a variety of awards and special recognition. I attended law school in Silicon Valley, graduating with honors and founding my own Silicon Valley law firm, from which I retired in the late 1980s. I have worked side by side with over a half dozen Pulitzer prize-winning photographers, was shot once, and later medically evacuated from Vietnam while photographing the war there.

Self-taught in photography, later, among others, I have been mentored by the following:
1. Henri Cartier-Bresson
2. Sal Vader, Pulitzer winner, Associated Press
3. Wes Gallagher, President/Ceo of Associated Press who groomed me to replace him as A.P. head.
4. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder who tried to lure me into his smaller company...

High school, honors graduate
Columbia College, Columbia University, NYC. B.A., Assistant to two Columbia Univ. Vice Presidents

University of Santa Clara Law School, JD, cum laude
(Silicon Valley)

Wetzlar, Germany, 2004, Group Exhibition
Internet site views between 200 million and 300 million views
Featured 'Emerging Artist', LensCulture.com, April 2018.
Author: "John Crosley, Forty Years Capturing Life With a Camera'. A&I Publishing.2010.
Six more photo books pending, each 95 percent complete
One combination trade book/university photo text, on shooting 'street' style.