Edward Keating was born in 1956 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. Self-taught, he began his career as a working photojournalist in New York in the late seventies. A staff photographer for The New York Times from 1991-2002, he shared in the Pulitzer Prize the newspaper received for their coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He is also known for his unconventional photographs of weddings in America. He joined Contact in 2004, and has since been engaged in a soon-to-be-published long-term project on the famed US transnational highway, Route 66. He is based in New York City.