Charles Berger is a fine arts photographer and a pioneering worker in visual anthropology. His book of photographs of Tibetan exiles living in northern India (Image Tibet,1973), used creative printing techniques to convey ethnographically sophisticated information and was selected by the Time-Life Photography Annual as one of the year's best photography books. Flamenco Gitano (1975), an intimate study of Gypsy life in Spain, was featured in the ground breaking exhibit Exploring Society Photographically (1981) as a prime example of how the aesthetics of photographic documentation are critical to cultural interpretations. His photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and are in the Permanent Photographic Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Legends of The Spirit Trees (2010), photographed near his home in Santa Cruz, California, continues his innovative use of camera generated data to create compelling visual narratives that illuminate cultural experiences.
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