Herb Snitzer’s career covers 50 years of image making as well as being an author of five books, a co-founder of a freedom school which he directed for twelve years. A husband, father, grandfather. BFA, Phila College of Art, MA Goddard College.
He is a former member of the executive committee of the St. Petersburg branch of the NAACP, and a former 3rd vice-president. His commitment to racial and social justice is a matter of public record.
As a photo-journalist early in his career he worked for Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Time and many other magazines and newspapers such as the New York TIMES, and London Sunday TIMES, to name just a few. His images are also on over 250 CD and record covers.
He moved to St. Petersburg in 1992, establishing a studio at Salt Creek Artworks.