Ed Darack began his photography career while a student at the University of California, Davis Campus in the early 1990s, photographing the high mountain landscapes, weather, and mountaineers during climbing expeditions to Alaska, the Yukon, and on climbs in Mexico and throughout the western contiguous United States. He further diversified his spectrum of photography to include all types of landscapes—from coastal to inland desert—as well, he bagan shooting wildlife and urban scenes. His photography soon caught the attention of a number of major stock photography agencies while he was still a student, and he began seeing his images used throughout the world. After graduating college, he began his writing career, publishing in a number of nationally distributed specialty magazines on photography, weather, geography, and mountaineering. His first book, 6194 Denali Solo, which documented his solo climb of Alaska's Mount McKinley (Denali), was self published in 1995, but was quickly picked up by the world's largest outdoor book distributor. His second book, Wind - Water - Sun: A Solo Kayak Journey Along Baja California's Desert Coastline, was published in 1998, and his third, Wild Winds, about mountaineering expeditions in South America, was published in 2001. VICTORY POINT, Darack's fourth book, is published by Berkley Caliber, a division of the Penguin Publishing Group. Darack is currently working on a book tentatively titled Anbar Miracle, about the successful U.S. Marine counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq's Al Anbar Province, providing a "boots on the ground" perspective. He has embedded in Iraq twice and will return in 2009.
Darack has written for a number of magazines and publications, including Smithsonian Air and Space, Weatherwise (where he is a contributing editor), Alaska Geographic, the Weather Guide Calendar, Climbing, Rock and Ice, Alpinist, a variety of outdoor and photography publications, Gannett Newspapers, the Marine Corps Gazette, and others.

Darack's images, represented by Corbis, Science Faction Images, and the creative branch of Getty Images, are regularly used for all types of visual media throughout the globe, including the covers and interiors of some of the world's most widely read periodicals, on broadcast and cable television, and all forms of product advertising and packaging, for clients such as Germany's Stern, Smithsonian, The National Geographic Society, the Times of London, Bank of America, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Forbes Magazine, The United Nations, Volkswagen, Discovery Channel, AOL, Time Life, The Guardian, IBM, ABC News, Time, The BBC, NBC Television, PricewaterhouseCoopers, British Petroleum, Microsoft, Scientific American, and many others.