Philip Perkis began photographing in 1957 while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Subsequently he attended the San Francisco Art Institute and studied with Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and John Collier, Jr. He served as chair of photography at Pratt Institute and is currently on the graduate faculty for the School of Visual Arts and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. A Guggenheim Fellow and NEA and New York Creative Artists Public Service grants recipient, Perkis's work is represented in many museum collections, including: George Eastman House, The Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY MoMA, and SF MoMA.