David lives in Bristol in the South West of England and, like many photographers, he has been interested in photography since he was at school. His father was a keen photographer and so he had access to a small darkroom at home. He was very active at school as a photographer, taking most of the images for the school magazine and later, at Leeds University, he worked on the weekly student newspaper, firstly as Pictures Editor and later as Features Editor and then Assistant Editor.

After graduating and subsequently getting his PhD in combustion engineering, he worked in industry and local government before joining the UK Open University. During this time, photography took a back seat until he was given a Nikon D70 for his birthday in 2006 – and the love of making images was rekindled.

He joined the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in the same year and was awarded the distinction of Licentiate of the Society on 28th February 2008. On 16th June 2009, he was awarded the further RPS distinction of Associate of the Society in Visual Art. In March 2011 he was awarded an AFIAP (Artiste International Federation of Photographic Art).

He retired from full time employment with the Open University in 2010 and is now free to concentrate more on his photography.

He uses a Nikon D700, mostly with either a Nikon 28 – 300 mm lens or a Sigma 12 – 24 mm lens. His photographic interests are wide-ranging but his main interest is in photographing people in their environment.

David is Chair of the RPS Digital Imaging Group and Editor of their quarterly magazine, DIGIT, as well as the RPS Visual Art Group magazine ‘Visual Art’.