Frank Siteman was raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, where his Uncle Sid gave him a camera when he turned 14. Soon afterward, Siteman was making 50 cents each for shooting portraits of new hires for the school-district’s newsletters. After High School, he enrolled at Tufts University and traded portraits of the faculty for tuition payments, and a free-lance tradition was born which continues today. He graduated with a B.A. in visual communications and in his first year out of college, Siteman taught photography at Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, Simmons College The Orson Welles Film School and the Art Institute of Boston. During his first Christmas break from teaching high school, he unwittingly started shooting for stock during a last minute trip to Morocco. Future trips took him to Iceland shooting volcanoes, to Russia to document life at the transition to democracy, and to Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to photograph endangered ecosystems.
Over the years, Siteman has shot annual reports for companies as diverse as Thermo Electron, Altana Pharma, and City Year, and has done advertising photos for clients such as Canon, Pfizer, Fidelity Investments and Boston Whaler.
