[4] According to Baldwin, the meeting inspired his career in photography, and he began shooting wildlife imagery for Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and National Geographic.
[1] In 1970, Baldwin met his future wife and collaborator, Wendy Watriss, who was then a freelance photographer for Newsweek and the New York Times.
The couple first settled in a Texas farm, where they spent 15 years living in a 13-foot trailer for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded photo and oral history project documenting the rural poor, resulting in a 1991 book Coming to Terms: The German Hill Country of Texas.
[7] A collection of his work is stored in the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
[8] In 1983, Baldwin and his wife co-founded FotoFest in Houston, an arts organization dedicated to giving visibility to photographers from the parts of the world other than Europe and North America and providing biennial exhibition opportunities for photographers beyond established museums and commercial galleries.