Jim Burger

Jim Burger is a Baltimore-based photographer and writer with more than four decades of work in the city. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, he spent seventeen years as a staff photographer for The City Paper and The Baltimore Sun. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

His memoir What's Not To Like? Words and Pictures of a Charmed Life sold out its original hardback printing. His second memoir, Long Journey Home, explores how his Pennsylvania hometown shaped his values and identity throughout his Baltimore career. He is among the 90 photographers featured in the Baltimore Museum of Art's Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography exhibition (2026).