BIO: David Butow

David Butow is a photojournalist based in California, USA. Asignments have taken him to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South 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.

David was born in New York City 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, Communcation Arts, University of Missouri Pictures of the Year, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Photo District News, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, The American Photography Annual, The New York Association of Black Journalists and the Society of Magazine Designers.

Selected Interviews:
> An Interview with David Butow

> Changing China: An Interview with David Butow

> Capturing Images of War

> Talking Photography with David Butow

Selected Exhibitions:

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2009 "POY", Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles

2009 "American Youth"/Redux New York Photo Festival

2009- Butow, Brady-The exhibition. Los Angeles

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