David Burnett, as a journalist photographer, traveled a lot in his 36 years of shooting. His carrier started like a real hurricane (after graduating in Political Science): first at Times Magazine, then two years in Vietnam as an employ of Life Magazine. Another two years were spend traveling in a hunt of news for French photo agency Gamma. He continued with Fortune, ESPN Magazine, and many others as well as major Advertising campaigns, including Union Bank of Switzerland, Kodak, Rolex, Merck, even the U.S. Army.
The desire for traveling brought him to all the places on the Earth where something out of common happened (75 countries). News, Feature, and People pictures, as well as landscapes and scenics, all these come out from his camera in the shape of awards that include Magazine Photographer of the Year from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the World Press Photo of the Year, the Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club, White House News Photographers’ Association – Eyes of History Award, and so on.
In 1976, David Alan Burnett co-founded Contact Press Images in New York, and now lives in Washington, DC.
Pictures from his article in the National Geographic (August 2006 issue) on the post-Katrina effects along the Gulf Coast are being shown at the George Eastman House in Rochester, and at the Cabildo Museum in New Orleans. His feature story on Orlando was in the March 2007 National Geographic. The 1979 Iranian revolution, the 2004 Olympics and John Kerry’s presidential campaign are older successful photo reports made by David.
“When you get a picture you like, you really feel you have opened the eyes of the rest of the world to something worth looking at.”
“Ultimately technology is just a tool… It is easy to get caught up with all the gadgets and all the technology, but the most important thing is to be comfortable with the tools you have.”
“After a zillion years of being a magazine photographer, there is still nothing I’d rather be doing, except maybe stand-up comedy.”
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My Name is Lau, I'm 23 and I'm from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Nature Photography is my passion, and secondary, Abstract Photography, but other kind of photographic challenges please me as well.
