BIO: David Butow
David Butow is a photojournalist based in Los Angeles. As a contract photographer with U.S. News and World Report and a member of the Redux photo agency, his assignments have taken him to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and S. America. His primary interests are social issues and the effects of public policy at local and international levels. Butow also works extensively in the United States covering issues of politics, education, race, immigration and poverty among others.
As a photographer working in the journalistic field, he hopes his craft contributes to an understanding of various peoples, their living conditions, cultural evolutions and the connections that exist between societies around the world. He tries to approach his coverage with as few pre-conceptions as possible, letting the personal experience of seeing and photographing a situation guide his viewpoint.
Butow was born in New York City in 1964 and grew up in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Government he moved to Los Angeles where he worked for newspapers for a few years before starting his current work as a freelance magazine photographer.
He has received various awards from World Press Photo, University of Missouri Pictures of the Year, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Photo District News, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and The American Photography Annual.
Selected Interviews:
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An Interview with David Butow
> Capturing Images of War
> Talking Photography with David Butow
Selected Exhibitions:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007-"World Press Photo" Amsterdam, traveling exhibition through 2008
2006-"World Press Photo" Amsterdam, traveling exhibition through 2007
2002-"Pandemic: Facing AIDS" United Nations, New York, traveling exhibition ongoing
2000-"China-Fifty Years Inside the People’s Republic-Asia Society", New York, traveling exhibition ongoing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005-"One in a Billion-Coming of Age in the New China", Half King Gallery, New York
2001-"Saddam’s Iraq" International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France
2000-"Uighurs of China" Perfect Exposure Gallery, Los Angeles
2000-"Uighurs of China" Saba Gallery, NewYork
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