[4] He currently resides on a ranch in Montana where he has raised his four children with his wife, a Syrian immigrant and business woman, Souad.
Still a teen, Jarecke landed in New York with minimal experience and talked his way into meeting Sports Illustrated editor, Barbara Hinkle.
[5] Jarecke became a founding member of Contact Press Images[7] and was assigned to photograph Oliver North at the start of the Iran-Contra hearings.
[7] In the hours leading up to the ceasefire that would end the first Gulf War Jarecke was traveling along the Iraqi - Kuwait highway when he came upon a truck destroyed by American bombardment.
The picture Jarecke took features the charred remains of an Iraqi soldier with his last expression of pain imprinted on his face, his arms slumped over the window of the truck, attempting to lift himself out.