Brooklyn born and bred, Patrick Cashin has a long interest in photography, which began while serving his country as an engineman on the USS Denver, an amphibious transport dock of the U.S. Navy. His “interest” became a passion as he captured the haunting faces of the Vietnamese people during Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Vietnam.

Following four years of active duty and an honorable discharge from the Navy, Cashin joined Newsweek magazine, working full time in the photo lab while attending evening classes in photography at the Parsons School of Design.

Patrick began as staff photographer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in 1999, creating visually inspiring photographs of transportation infrastructure, from transit tunnels to toll bridges.

His prestigious sixteen-year career at Newsweek and twenty-year career with the MTA have brought him international freelance opportunities, and he continued photographing for the U.S. military till his retirement after 30 years serving in the Reserves.

Cashin’s photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Daily News, the London Times and Engineering News Record, to name just a few. Cashin is now retired, but continues to accept freelance assignments.