Ed Carreón began his career as a photojournalist working for major newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and USA Today, where he learned to think on his feet, perform under deadline pressure and become a thoughtful story teller. His social skills and capacity for empathy allowed him to enter into the lives of people from different walks of life and from many countries. These skills have helped him to understand the common threads that run through all people's stories.

He went on to freelance for major magazines such as Life, National Geographic, Forbes, Fortune, NewsWeek, etc. where he was assigned to do stories on everything from the Los Angeles riots to immigration stories in Mexico. Soon he began to pursue the portrait as a means of story telling as well, and is now sought after as a portrait photographer for annual reports, corporate, advertising and editorial photography clients.

Throughout the whole of his career he has traveled through Latin America and Europe as a wandering artist pursuing his personal work or on assignment as a photojournalist or annual reports photographer. But it is his personal work that has led him to understand that there is narrative in places and things in much the same way that native cultures throughout the world believe that everything has a spirit.

Ed enjoys working as an annual report photographer in Southern California because it allows him to combine his skills as a portrait photographer and photojournalist. He enjoys working as an editorial and advertising photographer because it allows him to draw on his experience in fine art photography.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter where he enjoys seeking undiscovered and forgotten places in the California desert.