Hubbard has been doing digital art since 2000, after an extensive media career. His digital art is an extension of professional video experience in television and publication photography. He feels he is telling the truth in a different medium. He has had 13 solo shows with his digital art and been in many group shows.
Hubbard was a local television director for ten years in Norfolk, Va. and Atlanta, Ga. before switching to newspaper photojournalism. He was a photojournalist at the Cincinnati Enquirer for twelve years. While at the Enquirer, from 1966 to 1978, he won 22 Ohio awards for photojournalism and two national awards, including a National Press Photographers Association award for best photo story coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings.

Hubbard did freelance photojournalism in Cincinnati from 1978 to 1983, primarily doing work for local hospitals and for Black Star Photo Agency in New York. His Black Star assignments have appeared in many national magazines including Time, People Weekly, TV Guide, US Magazine, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Barrons, Der Spiegel, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, etc. Hubbard holds a master’s from the University of Cincinnati. He taught photojournalism at The Ohio State University from 1983 to 1998. He has been doing digital abstract art since 2000.

Hubbard has written over a dozen articles for various publications, on newspaper photojournalism. They include Editor&Publisher and News Photographer (National Press Photographers Assoc. magazine) and various national, state and regional photojournalism and academic publications. Hubbard has edited four newsletters in professional, academic, association and social areas for a total of seven years. He has consulted in-residence with newspapers in Alabama, Indiana, Kansas and Michigan on creative use of photography and photographers.