Background
Jeffrey S. Gates was born on July 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Jeffrey S. Gates was born on July 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Jeffrey Gates completed his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Michigan State University, East Lansing (1971), and his Master of Arts (1973) and Master of Fine Arts (1975) in Photography and Design at UCLA.
Jeffrey Gates taught photography at a number of colleges in the Los Angeles area: Chaffey (since 1976), Pasadena City (since 1976), Cerritos (since 1977) and UCLA Extension (since 1977). He also became co-director of the gallery at Los Angeles Harbor College in 1979 and in 1978-1979 was senior photographer for the Neuropsychiatrie Institute at University of California at Los Angeles. He taught photography at Santa Ana College (California) from 1975 to 1979.