Background
He was born in 1908 in British Columbia, Canada.
He was born in 1908 in British Columbia, Canada.
In 1924 he graduated from Vancouver College.
During his college years, he had a great ambition to become a photographer and so he was hired by the local Vancouver Sun in 1939, at the age of 31 years. In 1944, Cunningham joined another paper named the Vancouver Province. He would go on working for the Province for 27 years.
lieutenant is alleged that Cunningham took over 65,000 pictures during his lifetime.
After he retired from the Province in 1973, he established a solo career until he died in 1993, at the age of 84.