the Picture Archive Council of America, a stock photography trade organization. His work has appeared in publications including National Geographic, Stern, Geo, The New York Times, and many others. He is the author of a number of books, including Space Places, which has a foreword by Colonel Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., the second person to walk on the Moon. In 2006, he founded the photography agency Science Faction Images, a rights-managed agency focused on science, technology, and natural history images. Ressmeyer sold Science Faction to Superstock, a leading global photography agency, in 2012. Personal life Ressmeyer taught a class in rocketry at the Bush School, Seattle, Washington. He died of a stroke in August, of 2018, after surviving cancer. References External links Roger Ressmeyer Interviewed by Charlie Rose, December 12, 1992 Roger Ressmeyer's Visions of Tomorrow documentary discussion American photographers 1954 births 2018 deaths