Wine making in the Napa Valley has become a new photographic pursuit aided greatly by Margaux Singleton of the Enoteca Wine Shop in Calistoga. I have had the pleasure of documenting the production of her MX Cabernet Sauvignon and Amnesia Zinfandel for the last three years and of course we also manage to visit some of the many other wineries in the Napa Valley and surrounding areas. Read More
Chick Harrity has been a working photojournalist for over 60 years. His interest in news photography was sparked by an 11th grade Journalism course taught by a moonlighting Reading Times reporter, Bill Bernheart. One of the requirements was working 10 hours at the Times under the tutelage of Chief Photographer Clifford Yeich. He wound up spending much more time at the paper over the next two years and while covering the schools football and basketball games for the high school newspaper he wound up having many photos published in the Times. Upon graduation he was offered a job by both the morning and evening papers in town but chose to stay with Yeich, who became his mentor, at the morning Times. Harrity wound up staying for 9 years learning the profession before leaving for a job with the Associated Press in New York. Read More
I left Reading for a job as a picture editor for the Associated Press in their New York City headquarters. I was a great education in all the aspects of Wire Service photography and I also learned that I needed to get back on the street as a photographer. An opening occurred in early 1966 and I was transferred to the Albany bureau where I covered Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s successful re-election campaign. In 1667 an opening occurred in the Chicago Bureau where I was able to get back to my old favorite sports coverage and unexpectedly learn how to cover the racial unrest that was occurring. Read More
Harrity was transferred to the AP’s Washington DC bureau in 1968. In 1981 he moved across town to US News & World Report magazine where he stayed until 2001 making a total of 33 years in the Nations Capital covering both the White House and Capitol Hill. Harrity had photographed John F. Kennedy while working for the Reading Times and when in Washington he covered 8 more Presidents making a total of 9 during his career. He relocated to Calistoga, CA in 2001, where he is currently the Photo Coach and occasional contributing photographer for the Calistoga Tribune, a thriving weekly newspaper with a circulation of 1,200. Harrity was awarded the White House News Photographers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the National Press Photographers Association’s Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award in 2013. Other major awards include the Leica Medal of Excellence for Photojournalism, the White House Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year and the Associated Press’s Managing Editors Award of Excellence. Read More
In 1981 Harrity left the AP to move to US News & World Report magazine where he stayed until 2001 making a total of 33 years in the Nations Capital covering both the White House and Capitol Hill. Harrity had photographed John F. Kennedy while working for the Reading Times and when in Washington he covered 8 more Presidents making a total of 9 during his career. He relocated to Calistoga, CA in 2001, where he is currently the Photo Coach and occasional contributing photographer for the Calistoga Tribune, a thriving weekly newspaper with a circulation of 1,200. Harrity was awarded the White House News Photographers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the National Press Photographers Association’s Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award in 2013. Other major awards include the Leica Medal of Excellence for Photojournalism, the White House Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year and the Associated Press’s Managing Editors Award of Excellence. Read More
Working in Washington also means coverage of Capitol Hill and these photos were made between 1968 and 2001. The black and white images are from my AP years and the color from US News & World Report. The AP assigned one photographer to cover the Senate side of the Capitol and one to the House of Representatives. In 1978 the AP’s long time Senate photographer Henry Griffith had to retire unexpectedly due to a disability and I volunteered to take his place temporarily and so became the AP’s Senate Photographer from that point until 1981 when I moved over to U.S News, where we also covered the major stories on the Hill. Read More
I was sent to the AP’s Saigon bureau in 1973 to help with the coverage of the departure of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the arrival of the Canadian Peacekeeping Force and the prisoner exchanges between the North and South and the start of their Peace talks. During my 3 and a half month stay I also focused on portraits of refugees, orphans and people on the street. Read More
Thirty Three years based in Washington DC for the Associated Press from 1968 to 1981 and then US News & World Report magazine until 2001 afforded me the opportunity to cover quite a few major stories other than the White House and Capitol Hill. Read More
Calistoga is located at the top of the famed Napa Valley in Northern California. A town of 5,500, it is known for Wine, Water and Wellness due to its thermal Hot Springs and many spas. It is the only small town in the world that still has two competing weekly newspapers. Read More
