An amateur photographer since childhood, when he photographed the Great Spruce Head Island owned by his family, Porter earned degrees in chemical engineering and medicine, and worked as a biochemical researcher at Harvard University.
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Through Nancy he was a brother-in-law of photographer Eliot Porter and painter Fairfield Porter.