Starting out at age 17 on his first full-time job as a newspaper photographer in Raleigh, North Carolina, Burk Uzzle has gone on to an acclaimed career as one of America's premier photographers. He worked as a contract photographer for Black Star and Life and spent 15 years as a full member of Magnum Photos, the photography collective. He served two terms as Magnum President.

Two books of his work, Landscapes and All American, highlight the eclectic nature of his photography.

He has had over fifteen major solo exhibitions, including two shows at the International Center of Photography; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gallerie Agathe Gaillard in Paris; the opening exhibition at the Witkin Gallery and the inaugural exhibition at Leica Gallery in New York.

Martha Chahroudi, former curator of photography at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, compared Uzzle's work with Robert Frank:

"Robert Frank's ... Americans are more anonymous, passive, frightened and defensive. They are hidden behind a photographic surface of grain and blur, obscured by objects and by each other. Uzzle's Americans rarely recede even in their moments of aloneness... Where Frank's American flags obliterate people, Uzzle's stars and stripes adorn and frame them. Uzzle offers us a bright feeling of hope and exuberance, and at the same time, he is eminently down to earth, and for that we owe him great thanks."

An avid motorcyclist, he has participated in and photographed Bike Week for over 25 years. He has competed in numerous Enduro competitions - 100-mile cross country dirt bike races - at Bike Week and around the country.

Now living in Ormond Beach, Florida, he keeps a busy schedule of work for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. He is represented by Art and Commerce Anthology.