Todd started to assistant to photographers, Mel Dixion, Harvey LLoyd working in image and sound and worked taught with his mentor and teacher Ernst Haas from 1972-1986, working as a freelance photographer since 1973 to present for Audio/Visual presentation for museums, corporate work, as a producers of documentary films has lectured and teaching in the USA and abroad, published many articles, and won several awards and honors, including Artist-in-Residence, Germany for his project "Darkness into light: Re-emergence of Jewish Life in Germany".