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Bagram, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of Dusan Vranic
David Guttenfelder is a photojournalist and National Geographic Explorer focusing on geopolitical conflict, conservation, and culture.
Guttenfelder has spent more than 25 years as a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Japan, India, Israel, Ivory Coast and Kenya covering world events. In 2011, he helped open a bureau in Pyongyang for the Associated Press, the first western news agency to have an office in North Korea. Guttenfelder has made more than 40 trips to the isolated country.
Guttenfelder is an eight-time World Press Photo Award winner and a seven-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the ICP Infinity Prize for Photojournalism. The Overseas Press Club of America has recognized him with the John Faber, Olivier Rebbot, & Feature Photography awards. Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA have named him Photojournalist of the Year. A photograph of his made in North Korea was named among TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential Photographs Ever Taken.”
Baghdad, Iraq. Photo courtesy of Khalid Mohammed/ AP
Guttenfelder has also been recognized for his advertising photography and writing, including honors from the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity, D&AD for press advertising, the 2016 AICP award for best Public Service campaign. His commercial partnerships include Google, Apple, Paramount Pictures, SONY, Mazda, Rimowa, Facebook/Instagram, Hyatt, Airbnb, Huawei, State Farm, Jura Whiskey, and others. In 2017, he was featured in the Squarespace commercial aired during the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony.
Guttenfelder has been industry leader in smartphone photography and social media. He was named inaugural Instagram Photographer of the Year by TIME Magazine, and has been recognized by the Webby Awards, the Shorty Award for online photography, and the Online Journalism Award. His mobile phone photography has been exhibited at Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan, France, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and at the Cortona Photo Festival in Tuscany. He was part of the panel lecture, "Instagraming the News," at the SXSW digital conference. He taught the first National Geographic Explorer's Smartphone Photography workshop in San Francisco in 2015. He is the founder of the Instagram collectives @everydayUSA and @everydayDPRK. His personal Instagram account, @dguttenfelder, reaches more than 1.1 million followers.
Pyongyang, North Korea
His photography has been exhibited at The Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York; “El Valor del Momento” in Havana, Cuba, at Visa pour l’lmage in Perpignan, France; and Spain’s Encuento International de Foto Periodismo where he won the “Cuidad de Gijon” International Journalism Prize. His work from the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was part of “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; and the Brooklyn Museum.
Fukushima, Japan. Photo courtesy of Noriko Hayashi
Guttenfelder is a frequent keynote event speaker, appearing often in the NatGeoLive! lecture series, touring with Pop Up Magazine, and speaking at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and many other public events.
As a teacher and workshop lead, Guttenfelder is active with the Visions Workshop Photo Camps in Havana, Cuba and Montana's Crow Reservation. He has been a team leader at the Eddie Adams Workshop. He has lead National Geographic Explorer's photography workshops and was a trustee and instructor with the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation's annual workshops in Vietnam. He has been a professional in residence and lecturer at many U.S. universities. He has served as a jury member for World Press Photo, the Getty Grant, and Pictures of the Year International.
He is an FAA Part 107 licensed commercial drone pilot.
Guttenfelder studied Kiswahili at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He graduated with Highest Distinction from the U.S. University of Iowa majoring in Journalism, Cultural Anthropology and African Studies. He was named among University of Iowa’s Notable Alumni.
He is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hummingbird Pass, Montana