After Philadelphia's Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, Philadelphia Museum College of Art, three years in the Army (including 18 months in Eritrea, Ethiopia, doing a mid-'60s, east African version of Good Morning Vietnam from an 8,000' mountain top); then back to Philly for a year as Account Executive/TV producer/copy writer/Art Director at Ball Associates Advertising Agency, and two years at WIP Radio... Ken Schuster entered Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1968. While in school, he assisted film-makers Haskell Wexler, Cal Bernstein and other notables. Upon graduation, Ken worked with designers Charles and Ray Eames and shared a studio with Jim Britt, MoTown's premier music industry photographer in L.A. Ken was the West Coast Manager of the commercial photography division of The Associated Press. In 1973 Ken substituted for a photography teacher on leave. Like everything in life, one thing led to another, and soon he was teaching at East L.A. College, Cal State University, Mt. San Antonio College and L.A. City College. Meanwhile, Schuster's client list was expanding, and he opened a solo studio, specializing in advertising and illustrative photography, with clients such as Mattel, Rockwell, Metromedia, Paramount Pictures, Atlantic Records, MGM, several regional and national consumer magazines and advertising agencies. At night and weekends, Ken squeezed-in graduate work at The Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and picked up a teaching credential at UCLA. Eventually, full-time teaching swapped places with full-time photography. In 2001, Schuster retired and spent a year decompressing in an old-growth redwood grove near Eureka, northern California. Then it was on to New Hampshire and a radically different and enjoyable life in a rustic post-and-beam house surrounded by trees and bordered by hundreds of acres of Audubon Society wildlife refuge. Now he is re-experiencing the joy of photography, unencumbered by publication deadlines and academia.

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