• George Olson / MPW.59
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  • George Olson
  • West Coast Sales Manager, Digital Railroad
  • The 59th Missouri Photo Workshop | Chillicothe, Mo.
  • George Olson is the former Director of Photography for Sunset magazine, and began his career as a newspaper photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Kansas City Star.

    During a 20-year freelance career before coming to Sunset, he shot for many publications, including National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times, and had many corporate clients.

    He was a picture editor on multiple books produced by the Day in the Life staff. He was Director of Photography for the book Baseball in America and he edited the Las Vegas book Planet Vegas.

    He is now West Coast Sales Manager of Digital Railroad, a trusted provider of online technology and services for the global community of buyers and sellers of professional photography.