Story highlights 96-year-old photographer Walter Chandoha is a master in the field of animal photographyAt one point around 90% of cat and dog food packaging in the US had a label featuring one of his picturesHe has photographed over 300 magazine covers, thousands of adverts and written 34 books(CNN) Once upon a time Walter Chandoha owned the Mob. A photographer born in New Jersey in 1920, Chandoha didn't get mixed up in the wrong crowd. It's one of over 200,000 stock images Chandoha has taken in a career stretching back to his days as a student at New York University. Since then he's amassed 34 books, over 300 magazine covers, thousands of adverts and become the preeminent cat photographer in America. A photo posted by Walter Chandoha (@chandohacats) on Nov 30, 2015 at 8:10pm PSTChandoha was taking cute cat photos decades before cute cat photos became the internet's bread and butter.

Source: CNN September 22, 2016 17:48 UTC