1964-1966 - I lived in Sweden and traveled widely in Europe--Oslo,Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Moscow, Leningrad. Most of my pictures show people and human behavior -  hippies, protests, sex, drugs, music. Personalities include Martin Luther King, Mariam Makeba, Bob Dylan, Ornette Comeman, Boz Skaggs, Joan Baez.

1966-1978 - I lived in Manhattan. I was staff photographer for the Manhattan Tribune newspaper for several years. I also photographed on assignment for Rolling Stone, Time, Harper's, New York Times, Business Week  and other magazines. I specialized in photos of the counterculture, and shot every major protest. My first book, SIDETRIPPING, was critically acclaimed, and my photos of slums, pollution, education, social problems, and social change appeared in over a hundred textbooks.
In l970 I took the first of fifteen annual trips to New Orleans to photograph the Mardi Gras celebrations. I also shot in Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Libya, Egypt, Mexico, Key West, Minneapolis and San Francisco. Personalities include William S. Burroughs, Bella Abzug, Al Green, Ron Wood, Carlos Santana, Rod Stewart, Allen Ginsberg, Sly Stone, Luis Bunuel, Bernardo Bertolucci, Abby Hoffman, Al Green, Etta James, Gil Evans, Dion, Spider Webb, Jimmy Page, Nelson Rockefeller.

1978-1987 - I lived in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY. I did lots more editorial and textbook photography, and received my third New York State Arts Council fellowship to publish my four-year photo essay "Wall Street." That book won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Outstanding Humanistic Photojournalism.
Photos from this period include protests, nature, gender issues, erotica, tattooing, piercing and other forms of body modification, outlaw bikers and radical artists. I photographed in San Francisco, Hollywood, Key West, New Orleans, Paris, and Amsterdam--and taught workshops in Woodstock, Chicago, Minneapolis, Martha's Vineyard, and Arles, France.
Personalities include Larry Clark, Ed Sanders, Annie Sprinkle, Fakir Musafar, Marco Vassi, Lyle Tuttle, Cliff Raven, Michael O'Donoghue, Ira Cohen.

1987 - 2007 - I've lived in San Francisco since 1988. I'm a staff photographer for Skin & Ink magazine, and my photos have appeared in lots more textbooks, magazines, newspapers, and on posters and post cards. Eight books of my fine-art photographs have been published, and my work has been exhibited and published throughout the world. San Francisco subjects include the Folsom Street Fair (11 years), Burning Man (three times), Dadafest (4 times). My documentation of body modification, fetish, and the radical-sex communities is unmatched. During this period I also photographed in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Hawaii, Mexico, Vancouver, Copenhagen, and Thailand. Personalities include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Jack Micheline, Carol Queen, Jello Biafra, Ron Turner, Anna Banana, Herb Gold, Charles Henri Ford, and others.

The Gatewood archive contains several thousand prints, 250,000 slides and negatives--plus contact sheets, proof prints, personal papers, correspondence, books, and ephemera. It also contains master edits of 36 documentary videos, plus three films (including a rare copy of Dances Sacred and Profane, and a choice collection of prints by other photographers.