David Evans is an award-winning photographer specializing in international documentary imagery. His clients—among them the National Geographic Society, Discovery Channel, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—rely on David to consistently bring back compelling images.

Assignments have taken him to destinations like Chad, Chile, Hawaii, France, Monaco, Latvia, Venezuela, Tajikistan, China, Peru, Nicaragua, Mexico, Brazil, Ethiopia, and Lebanon, to name a few. Evans' U.S. assignments are equally diverse, documenting stories like community-based reform projects for east-Los Angeles gang members and inner city educational initiatives in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

Exercising flexibility, diplomacy, and discretion, Evans works seamlessly on extended assignments with high-profile public figures, traveling documentary film crews, and embedded with rural indigenous cultures.

His work has appeared in National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Traveler magazine, Washington Post, Time/CNN, The London Times, BBC/Channel 4, BBC/Brazil, New Scientist magazine, and many others.

Evans led a fact-finding tour of international designers and merchandisers to Venezuela and Peru to research the authentic cultural and aesthetic influences which inspired the National Geographic South American Home Collection.

David was an award winning Creative Director on three continents for places like National Geographic Television, Ogilvy & Mather, and DDB Needham Worldwide. He has directed, produced, and consulted on a wide variety of documentaries, IMAX films and animations, broadcast graphics and promotions, print and collateral advertising, and brand development and management in nearly every form of traditional, integrated, and emerging media.


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In October, David is traveling in Romania, shooting for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In November David has an exhibit of photographs and selected pieces from his folk art collection at the NCSU College of Design in Raleigh, NC. The opening reception and lecture will be on November 5. David hopes to make it to his house in the Venezuelan Andes for some R&R before the end of the year; it's been over a year since he's had time to go. He's planning a trip to Sri Lanka for personal shooting in early '09.

Much of August was spent in Brazil as Executive Producer of video materials about fair trade coffee for the National Geographic Society. He was the still photographer on the same project and hopes to have images and video posted soon.

In April, David received 2 awards for photographic excellence by the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

Also in April, David spent 2 inspiring weeks taking photographs in and around inner city schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Another profile article about David appeared in February's PDN Magazine as part of the National Geographic Gear On Assignment photographer endorsement program. Featured in the double-page spread were images from China's Tibetan Plateau and Three Gorges Dam region, and David's anecdotes about the benefits he gets from using National Geographic/Bogen photo gear.

A multi-spread profile and interview of David appear in the March 2008 edition of Digital Photographer magazine, Ukraine edition.

In February, Evans completed an assignment in Honduras, photographing an economic development ad campaign. The ads will run in magazines like Forbes and Fortune.


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This year, one of David's images from Chad, shot for National Geographic Society and published in IBM's annual report, was selected for inclusion in the prestigious PDN Photo Annual.

PDN Magazine published a double-page spread profiling David and his work as part of the National Geographic Gear On Assignment photographer endorsement program promoting National Geographic's line of photography equipment.

David journeyed to China as an invited guest of China Foto Press and the party governments of Chongqing and Hubei provinces, documenting the changing life and culture along the Yangtze river and in the Three Gorges Dam region.

In 2007 David worked extensively for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). He traveled with Bill Gates to Mexico, with Melinda Gates to Chicago and Los Angeles, and with foundation CEO Patty Stonesifer to Mexico documenting school, library, internet, micro-finance, and community-improvement initiatives. He traveled alone for the foundation to places as diverse as Massachusetts and Latvia documenting and reporting on foundation initiatives.

Evans work was selected to appear in two major Chinese photography exhibits; he had 50 images in the 2006 First Annual Qinghai Photography Festival and several images in the 2007 "Through the Eyes of Foreigners" exhibit in Beijing.


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During his 6 years as Creative Director for National Geographic Television and Film (NGTF), David played a key role in the worldwide launch of the National Geographic Channel, and directed NGTF's Photo Operations department.

He's taken on editorial, advertising and promotional assignments around the world and his images have been published and broadcast by and on behalf of the best names in documentary media and philanthropic missions.

David has served on 4 occasions as an international electoral observer working with The Carter Center in Venezuela, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.

When he's not on assignment, David splits his time between Washington, D.C., and his hideaway in the Venezuelan Andes.