Cary Wolinsky worked as a news photographer for The Boston Globe in 1968, and in 1972 began his 35-year career as a National Geographic photographer.grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a glass-manufacturing town, thirty-miles east of Pittsburgh. His father had been a glider pilot and avid photographer in Europe throughout World War II.  At age twelve, Cary Wolinsky was making photographs of his hometown and creating prints in his basement darkroom. In 1965 Wolinsky entered the photojournalism program at Boston University and was well situated to photograph the Vietnam era protests and campus unrest. He studied with Carl Chiarenza who, along with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, encouraged him to pursue fine art photography. In 1969, Aaron Siskind accepted him to join the graduate photography program at Chicago’s Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Wolinsky chose instead to work as a photojournalist for the Boston Globe and began showing his fine art work at Pucker Gallery in Boston.