Biography


Mark Chester has published photographs, feature travel and human-interest stories in newspapers nationwide including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, among others. 


His newest book, Roadshow Anthropology was published by UMass Press, 2023. Previously he has published, Twosomes, 2010, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape, Photographs of New Americans, 2023, No in America,1986, and Dateline America by Charles Kuralt, 1979.

His photographs are in permanent museum collections in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Springfield (MA), Denver, Portland, and San Francisco Museums. Also they are in university libraries and museums including, American University’s Katzen Collection, University of Maryland - Albin Kuhn special collections library, Center for Creative Photography, Lehigh University Museum.


A 1967 graduate of the University of Arizona with a B.A. in Liberal Arts - psychology - Chester is a former adjunct instructor at UC–Berkeley University Extension and Lesley University. He created the course “The Photographer-Writer” at Cape Cod Community College.


He has been freelancing photography from 1972 to present in concert with editorial assignments.

From 1969-1972, Chester was Director of Photography, Press Relations, and staff photographer at ASCAP – American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers - in New York City in addition to assistant to the Director of Public Relations.


From 1988 to 2000, he was managing partner of an educational game manufacturer in California.

Chester relocated to Cape Cod in 2002. He has been a contributor of photos and words to the local publications in Falmouth since 2008 to present. He is a lifetime member of ASMP – American Society of Media Photography - professional organization.


Chester’s monthly column “See What I Mean?” with pictures and words, is published in The Enterprise newspapers of Falmouth, Mashpee, Bourne, and Sandwich, Massachusetts. Born in Baltimore, Chester grew up in western Massachusetts and now lives on Cape Cod.