*1941 US, Butler, Missouri
American photographer (born 1941 in Butler), also referred as Chuck. O'Rear started his career with the daily newspapers Emporia Gazette, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, worked for National Geographic magazine, and was part of Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project. He began photographing winemaking in 1978. Since 1998 O'Rear has been associated with Corbis (2), a Seattle based stock photography company owned by co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates.