Greg Gilbert

Next June, 2007, Greg Gilbert will have worked as a staff photographer for the Seattle Times for 40 years. When he started in 1967, color film had a speed of 12 and no one knew what a digital camera was. Today, color film has a speed of 3200 and everyone uses a digital camera.
Greg was named newspaper photographer of the year in 1970 and 1971 for the West
Coast by the National Press Photographer’s association, in 1999 he was a Pulitzer finalist (along with 9 other Times photographers) for an entry involving the Times photographic coverage of the WTO riots in downtown Seattle.
Greg likes to photograph people in their environment.  He has photographed every
President since LBJ; he also photographed Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck and Mel Torme.
He was the first photographer to take a digital photograph inside a jetliner at
35,000 feet and then transmit it from the plane to the Times in time to make a deadline.