Jake McGuire has been a writer, reporter, editor and is one of America's most published photographers. His photos appear in private collections, exhibitions, offices, and his photos and articles have been found in airline and travel magazines. He currently has 11 coffee table books in print. In addtition to studying journalism he attended culinary school and has written about food, wine and travel.

McGuire, a native Washingtonian, has won more than a dozen awards for photography and photojournalism. He has been to more than 40 countries and has an extensive collection of international images that have been published in a wide variety of publications..

McGuire has worked full-time at five newspapers and he was asked to help launch The Hill Newspaper to compete with Roll Call and did multiple jobs there as a writer, photo editor and restaurant critic.