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 shot his first assignment for Sports Illustrated. After a two-year stint as a contract photographer that included five covers, he left SI to pursue 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.
Paul shoots primarily 35mm and was one of the early converts to digital. Today, many 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.