George Olson, Director of Photography of Sunset magazine, began his career as a newspaper photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Kansas City Star. He moved to San Francisco in 1977, where he was based as a freelancer. He shot for many publications, including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and The New York Times, and had many corporate clients as well. He also served as a freelance picture editor for the San Francisco Examiner, and many of the series of Day in the Life... books. He was also a picture editor on the books Christmas in America, Jews in America, One Earth, and The Power to Heal, produced by the Day in the Life staff. He was Director of Photography of the book Baseball in America, published by Collins, and he edited the Las Vegas book Planet Vegas for the same publisher. He has served on the faculty of the Missouri University Photo Workshop, and the faculty of the Jackson Hole workshop Photography at the Summit. He has also taught Photojournalism as an extension course for the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999, he was a judge of the 56th annual National Press Photographers Ass’n Pictures of the Year competition, and has served as a judge for the Western Magazine Publishers’ Maggie awards. In 1995 he was named Director of Photography at Sunset magazine.