Dick Durrance II is a versatile photographer who has distinguished himself in a diverse array of photographic careers:  as a combat photographer in Vietnam, on the National Geographic staff, creating worldwide advertising campaigns, shooting and publishing panorama images of National Parks, and now photographing golf books and golf courses.

He won the National Press Photographers association’s Picture of the Year competition four times and was named Photographer of the year by the White House News Photographers Association in 1972.  He was voted Advertising Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Media Photographers in 1987.  Dartmouth College’s awarded him their Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in 1991.

In 1988 Farrar, Staraus, Giroux published a book based upon his Vietnam images entitled Where War Lives.  In 2000 Andrews McMeel published his book Golfers, featuring photographs of and interviews with a wide assortment of individuals who share his passion for the game and in 2002 they published his book The PGA TOUR:  A Look behind the Scenes.

In 2004 he was one of four photographers selected as a Founding Member of the Academy for Golf Art.