This self-taught photographer began his career by covering Afghanistan’s mujahideen resistance to Soviet occupation, followed by dispatches from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The legendary Howard Chapnick accepted Haley into Black Star photo agency after viewing this work. From 1988 to 1994, Haley photographed areas of conflict in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Baltimore Sun in 1992, for helping to break the story of the famine in Somalia. Since the birth of his son in 1995, however, Haley has eased away from the battlefield, exploring subjects as diverse as the Bolivian altiplano, Eastern Europe’s persecuted Roma (Gypsies), and the decaying infrastructure of Soviet-era industry.

Haley’s photographs have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide; his clients include Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, GEO, Aperture, Cleopatra Records and the Chevron Corporation. Both American PHOTO and (French) PHOTO magazines have profiled Haley and his work. His exhibition prints have hung worldwide, under the auspices of such disparate entities as the Ansel Adams Gallery, the Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, Photo Americas, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the United Nations.