Mr. David Burnett, Professional Photographer Visit This Photographer's Web Site: http://www.davidburnett.com  |
David Burnett has been photographing the world for more than 35 years. A native of Salt Lake City, he began taking pictures while in high school, and soon thereafter was selling pictures of high school sporting events to the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News. He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 (B.A. Political Science) and began working as a free lancer for Time, and later Life magazines, at first in Washington DC and Miami, and later in South Viet Nam. After two years in Vietnam, and the demise of Life weekly, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for their news department for two years. In 1975 he co-founded Contact Press Images, in New York. Over the last three decades, he has traveled extensively, working for most of the major photographic and general interest magazines in the U.S. and Europe. His work encompasses News, Feature, and People pictures, as well as landscapes and scenics. He is known as someone who can, no matter how challenging the assignment, return with “The Picture.”
His awards include “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the “World Press Photo of the Year”, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club.
He continues working around the world, having traveled to more than 75 countries, producing photographic essays for Time, Life, Fortune, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and many others as well as working on major Advertising campaigns, including “Union Bank of Switzerland”, Kodak, Rolex, Merck, and the U.S. Army.
Some of the stories he has covered include the following:
American and French Presidential campaigns (1974-2004)
Chile after the coup d’etat and fall of Allende.
Indo-Pakistan war.,
Iranian revolution and the return of Khomeini.
1984-88-92-96-2000-2004 Summer Olympic games and 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games
Sub-Saharan & Ethiopian drought (1974-1984)
Recent major published stories include:
The Cover story of TIME Magazine on the 2004 Presidential campaign
Olympic Black and White essay on the Spirit of Sport for Time Magazine (also published in London Telegraph / FAZ-Frankfurt / Blanco Y Negro / La Vanguardia / and Panorama).
Covering the work of a team from the Medicos Sin Fronteras (Doctors Without Borders) in Bolivia.
Traveling with Microsoft’s Bill Gates in India and South Africa for Fortune.
Time’s Man of the Year stories on Intel’s Andy Grove and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos.
He has been awarded a number of prizes including the following:
1974 Robert Capa Gold Medal (Overseas Press Club)
for work in Chile, after the Coup d’Etat
1980 Magazine Photographer of the Year (NPPA)
for work on the Iranian Revolution, Vietnamese
Boat People, Cambodian Refugees, and pilgrimage
trips of the new Pope, John Paul II
1980 World Press Photo (Holland) “Press Photo of the Year”
1980 Best Reporting from Abroad - (Overseas Press Club)
1985 Olivier Rebbot Award for Foreign Photographic Coverage (Overseas Press Club)
1985 World Press Photo (Holland) “Sports Photo of the Year” for the Picture of Mary Decker falling at the Los Angeles Olympic Games
1986 Philippe Halsman “Photojournalist of the Year” award (ASMP)
1991 White House News Photographers “Sports Feature of the Year”
1997 BEST Photo Competition: Int’l Olympic Committee/ Lausanne: Best Black & White Portfolio
1998 White House News Photographers “Portrait/Personality” for Bill Gates in India
2002 World Press Photo (Holland) 1st Prize Sports for Olympic Ski Jumper
2004 World Press Photo (Holland) 1st Prize Sports Series for “Athens Olympics”
2005 White House News Photographers 1st Prize Sports Action Photo for “Fencers”
2005 American Photo Magazine: named one of the 100 Most Important persons in Photography
2006 White House News Photographers 1st Prize Presidential
He is a member of the following Professional Organizations:
American Society of Media Photographers
National Press Photographers Association
The White House News Photographers Association
The Senate Press Photographers Gallery
Society of American Travel Writers |
