David's photography explores the relationship between urban communities and the built environment. View a series below or visit his instagram or flickr accounts for a wide assortment of daily shots. Occasional updates are also available on his blog, twitter account and email newsletter.
Selected books include:
In addition to his photographic work, David also makes films, including The Area, a feature-length documentary about a Chicago community being displaced by a rail yard expansion.
View his curriculum vitae [PDF]
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- Continuing — The Area screenings
- June 1, 2024 — FotoMatter Book Fair (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- January 18, 2024 — Growing Resistance, MIAD (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- November 4, 2022 — Isolated Building Studies, Head On Photo Festival (Sydney, Australia)
- September 16, 2022 — Une collection vivante !, CRP/ at Le Phénix (Valenciennes, France)
- June and July 2022 — Remix Place, European Capital of Culture (France and Luxembourg)
- March 25, 2022 — f22 Pop Up, Filter Space (Chicago, IL)
- February 16, 2022 — Instrumental, Ball State University CAP Gallery (Muncie, IN)
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![Isolated Building Studies](/images/n/photography_head_isolated.gif)
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A series examining the divergent investment processes in Chicago neighborhoods. |
![Selections from Ongoing Projects](/images/n/photography_head_ongoing.gif)
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Selected photographs from four ongoing projects. |
![Hauts-de-France Mining Basin](/images/n/photography_head_remixplace.gif)
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A series motivated by residents' connections with place on the France-Luxembourg border. |
![Story Poles](/images/n/photography_head_story_poles.gif)
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A series exploring the sculptural manifestations of property conflicts. |
![Telescope Houses of Buffalo, New York](/images/n/photography_head_telescope.gif)
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A series expressing growing population and historical change through vernacular architecture in Buffalo, New York. |
![From the Mississippi Watershed](/images/n/photography_head_exhibit_columbus.gif)
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A series exploring the systems of association and representation in the Mississippi River watershed. |
![Hauts-de-France Mining Basin](/images/n/photography_head_hautsdefrance.gif)
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A series interpreting the character and identity of the former French mining region. |
![Belfast, Northern Ireland](/images/n/photography_head_belfast.gif)
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A series exploring territoriality through the events of Eleventh Night and The Twelfth in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
![The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation](/images/n/photography_head_cha.gif)
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A series documenting the Chicago Housing Authority's plans to restructure the city's public housing system. |
![Affordable Housing of New York](/images/n/photography_head_affordable.gif)
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A series exploring the diversity of affordable housing developments in New York City. |
![The Bloomingdale](/images/n/photography_head_bloomingdale.gif)
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A series documenting the life of a former freight railroad line in Chicago, Illinois. |
![Detroit](/images/n/photography_head_detroit.gif)
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A series exploring the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan. |
![Las Vegas, Nevada](/images/n/photography_head_las_vegas.gif)
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A series investigating the downtown core and suburban ring of Las Vegas, Nevada. |
![Catholic Churches of Cambria City](/images/n/photography_head_churches.gif)
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A series documenting the closing of four Catholic churches and their school in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. |
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