![David Butow](/sites/redux/files/styles/pm_square_1_1/public/2023-11/david_butow_0.png?h=10e0835c&itok=zBCJX-Kl)
David Butow
Los Angeles, CA
David Butow is a freelance photojournalist whose projects and assignments have taken him to over two dozen countries including Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Peru, Yemen and Zimbabwe. His work in covering politics in Washington, D.C. resulted in the monograph BRINK, published in late 2021 by Punctum Press.
Born in New York and raised in Dallas, he has a degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. After college he moved to Los Angeles and worked in newspapers before beginning a freelance career for magazines in the 1990's.
From the mid-90's through the late-2000's he worked as a contract photographer for US News and World Report magazine covering social issues and news events such as post- 9/11 in New York, the Palestinian/Israeli Intifada, the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the death of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
More recently, his photographs of events such as the China earthquake in 2008, the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Hong Kong protests of 2019 and various projects in the U.S. have won awards from Pictures of the Year International, Photo District News, American Photography and others.
David's photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions including the Asia Society NY, the United Nations NY and Visa Pour l'Image in Perpignan, France. They have also appeared in books and magazines worldwide including National Geographic, Time, GEO, Stern, Vogue Italia, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Paris Match.
His body of work also includes several projects on education for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, personal work on the Uighur's of China, and principal photography for the National Geographic Traveller book Shanghai.
![Portrait](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230003_0.jpg?itok=kJXwbx9R)
![Catherine Faye and Marine Sanclemente visit Los Angeles and the nearby desert at the end of their American roadtrip tracing the scenes from the movie Thelma and Louise.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230006_0.jpg?itok=aa1JUJhd)
![Talent from the reality television show Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge have a romp during the show's finale.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2024-01/reduxport230009.jpg?itok=DM47NDOg)
![A worker is reflected in a computer screen as he and others assemble cars on the line at Tesla's factory in Fremont.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230013_0.jpg?itok=xCVnyEjv)
![The area of Market St. in San Francisco between 6th and 10th Streets is adjacent to the lower class Tenderloin district but it is being gentrified as prominent tech companies open new offices.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230016_0.jpg?itok=gl04gEwM)
![A woman and her son wait for their train to depart for Poland.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230017.jpg?itok=UyMuRMEw)
![Horses](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230020.jpg?itok=rNQXrReH)
![People](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230022.jpg?itok=qMH96g7n)
![Couple](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230023.jpg?itok=KjDMIIYS)
![Scenes from South Africa in celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230024.jpg?itok=Fkpbz93J)
![A man holds an anti-Trump sign outside of the courthouse.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230027.jpg?itok=0l3nSKJp)
![On the day that China celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, demonstrators and police clashed throughout the day and night in Hong Kong as the mostly young citizens try to make a stand on what they see as increasing encroachment of their freedoms from mainland China.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230028.jpg?itok=eYDil8LV)
![As an Afghan National Army soldier looks on from a rooftop, boys and men at a school gather as ballots are delivered for the upcoming national elections.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230030.jpg?itok=X6G-WTb9)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230035.jpg?itok=dKdY4Uvr)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230039.jpg?itok=5KBe1RYL)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230040.jpg?itok=aBrQYYji)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230041.jpg?itok=g4HT6RUa)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230043.jpg?itok=bmZ3bMlO)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230045.jpg?itok=PrScv_6d)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230046.jpg?itok=kyVWBzz6)
![A sign in support of the Trump campaign hangs on a house that's more than 100 years old off of a highway in Southern Michigan.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230047.jpg?itok=zJZh0ngp)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230048.jpg?itok=36mHhdlj)
![Candidate Donald Trump’s face is obscured by a teleprompter during a rally at an airplane hanger in Wilmington, Ohio a few days before he would win the presidency.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230049.jpg?itok=55kU3-B6)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230050.jpg?itok=AWjr85CT)
![Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is surrounded by fellow Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee moments after Flake’s surprise announcement that he would break ranks with his party and call for a delay int he confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to allow time for an FBI investigation into sexual allegations.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230051.jpg?itok=F3xYcmUf)
![A White House staffer with her daughter after visiting to watch Marine One carrying President Trump land on the South Lawn.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230052.jpg?itok=RSIta5o1)
![A man faces off against Secret Service agents in riot gear outside the White House on the first night of = demonstrations in Washington over the death of George Floyd.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230055.jpg?itok=FoqVVMpL)
![Federal law enforcement officers face off against George Floyd protestors who pushed up against fences set up in Lafayette Square as a buffer between the protesters and the White House grounds which is a few hundred yards behind the officers.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230056.jpg?itok=MXiUIuuF)
![Supporters of President Trump retreat from tear gas during a battle law enforcement officers on the west steps of the Capitol during the attack on the day of Joe Biden’s election certification by Congress.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230058.jpg?itok=PQ16IRHD)
![Scenes in Uvalde, Texas, a small town in the south of the state, after an 18-year old gunman went into a school and killed 19 children and two adults.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230059.jpg?itok=8VzkHPcu)
![David Butow Reportage](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230064.jpg?itok=pS6uI-I8)
!["The Teaching" In late December 2015 His Holiness the Dalai Lama travelled to Bylakuppe, India to give a ten-day teaching to tens of thousands of people from the exile Tibetan community living in India.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230066.jpg?itok=rjWrG0il)
![A man walks in to the valet entrance to the hotel. The Riviera Hotel and Casino, which opened in 1955, will be shut down permanently on May 4, 2015 and the building imploded in late summer 2015.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230067.jpg?itok=QSv_tQy_)
![Guests gamble at the roulette wheel. The Riviera Hotel and Casino, which opened in 1955, will be shut down permanently on May 4, 2015 and the building imploded in late summer 2015.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230068.jpg?itok=D6QcSmOG)
![The Riviera Hotel and Casino, which opened in 1955, will be shut down permanently on May 4, 2015 and the building imploded in late summer 2015.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230071.jpg?itok=9Zazh_Ll)
![Comedians and performers chat before a show at the comedy club in the hotel.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230072.jpg?itok=IO2zTFPj)
![Adult actress and a photographer work at one of the studio's display booths.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230073.jpg?itok=LMWh3FSg)
![Solamar Cove](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230075.jpg?itok=NsH482Jm)
![A comedian checks notes before taking stage at the comedy club of the hotel.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-11/reduxport230076.jpg?itok=jQsH_qdG)