Working mainly in the field of portraiture, Dmitri Kasterine has been a photographer for 48 years. His work has been journalistic and commercial and his subjects include both known and unknown people. Of the many notable people that he has photographed, those of Samuel Beckett, Martin Amis, David Hockney, James Baldwin and Steve Martin have been published worldwide.

He has worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, The New York Times and The Times (U.K.). Earlier in his career he shot stills for films, notably for Stanley Kubrick on Clockwork Orange, 2001, Dr. Strangelove and The Shining. In the field of corporate photography, he has traveled throughout Europe, Africa and the United States, on assignments for Fortune 500 companies photographing executives, employees and landscapes.

His advertising work includes campaigns for AT&T, Bristol Myers Squib, IBM, and Metropolitan Life. In addition to winning the Nikon/PDN award and a National Magazine Award, he has received three Gold Awards from the Connecticut Art Director's Club.

His current projects are a book of portraits of the people of Newburgh, NY, features in The World of Interiors, and writing a journal about his current photos.

He has lectured at the Royal College of Art in London and for 14 years has taught an independent course in basic and advanced photography at Vassar College. During the last two years he has completed a series of short films called Ways of Life, and a full-length documentary about the chef and best selling author Anthony Bourdain. Recently the National Portrait Gallery in London acquired twenty photographs of writers and artists taken in the years between 1974 and 1980.