Fields specializes in full-frame, black-and-white photos, shot as close as possible, of American Indian communities.
[2] In 1969, Fields was a student at University of California, Los Angeles, for a summer workshop involving graphite drawings.
In the mid to late 1970s, Fields helped out with a documentation project with the goal of capturing Native ceremonies and events on video and archiving them.
Fields and his friends were not a students at IAIA, but were taking part in photography and film projects around the area.
Fields' photographs were the first ever to be accepted to the Indian Annual exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art.