"He's been everywhere, but only for an hour" - American Photographer Magazine
David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 6 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images,the New York based photojournalism agency, now entering its 45th year. American Photo magazine named Burnett one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." (That made his mom very happy.) In the spring of 2019, David was officially named an "Artisan of Imagery" with the Sony professional photographers group. He changed his day to day working system over to Sony in the last year. The new professional cameras are the perfect modern full frame (a9 and a7riii and the aps-c a6600, a real fave) digital gear which join his generations old Speed Graphic in the shoulder bag. Besides the incredible line of Sony glass, there is something quite wonderful about being able to use decades old specialty glass, as the mirrorless cameras leave room for adapter rings. It's the absolute best of both worlds.
In the spring of 2018, David was awarded the Sprague Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Press Photographers Assn., though he claims he is now trying to figure out what his subsequent 'lifetime' work will be. here is a link to that announcement at the Northern Shortcourse... http://tinyurl.com/y3b6xbms Here on this site are images of history unfolding: war, sport, politics, the famous, the infamous, and the Unfamous. Work is constantly being added, so come back and see one person's view of what our world of the past 50+ years looks like. The last few years, David worked with Photographers for Hope to create a workshop for homeless news vendors in Glasgow, Scotland, and in 2017 the P4H team descended on Newburgh, NY, capturing the revival of a great American City. There, they shot for two weeks and produced a 100 print show at the Ann St. Gallery followed by a book of those images -- "Newburgh Rising" -- which was published -- in 2018.
For a quick tour of the last 50 years, in David's Pictures, have a look here: https://vimeo.com/96025929