Lt. Col Frederick E. Cale, USMC

Fred Cale is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, currently the Officer in Charge of the Abu Ghuraib Logistics Base in West Baghdad.  Trained as an architect, Cale has a unique point of view that combines a "painterly" quality with a humanistic accent on people.  He works almost exclusively with the Leica, uses wide-angle lenses more than telephoto, and his main photographic tool is a Leica R9 with Digital Module Back and a 21-35mm Vario-Elmar-R.

About the Leica, Cales says "I can’t make heads or tails of any camera besides a Leica.  It (all of em including this DMR) behaves like a musical instrument, complete with all pitfalls and rewards.  Also this thing is IMPERVIOUS to dust and I would know." Cale feels that he has been influenced by Werner Bischoff, Ernst Haas, David Alan Harvey, and Harry Gruyaert.