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RECENT ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
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Photograph for TIME, "Jeff Flake at a Crossroads" wins for Spot News Photo at the Deadline Club/Society of Professional Journalists annual awards in NYC.
Senator Chris Coons of Delaware writes an insider's view of the photograph of Jeff Flake made for TIME magazine during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
A piece written for Design Arts Daily on my experiences covering Washington over the last 18 months.
TIME magazine's Best of Photojournalism 2018
"Political Optics" Photography talk with David Butow at the Leica Store in Washington, D.C. November 29, 2018. 6:30-7:30pm
A piece I wrote for TIME on the story behind the Jeff Flake photograph from the Kavanugh hearings.
On the campaign trial in Los Angeles with Kevin de Leon who is challenging Diane Feinstein for a senate seat in California. For US News and World Report
Games 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals for ESPN
Photo essay of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill for NBC News.
The Best Photos from Time Magazine Photographers 2017
Two Houston Football Teams and their battle back from Hurricane Harvey for NBC News
Houston's recovery from Hurricane Harvey for NBC News
The eclipse seen from Madras, Oregon at Time
First person account of photographing the political turmoil on Capitol Hill with pictures of the James Comey and Jeff Sessions hearings in the Los Angeles Times
Traveling and shooting on-and-off in the swing state Midwest covering the conclusion of the U.S. presidential election. Follow on Medium and David Butow Photography on Facebook
Some of my thoughts on digital photo manipulation published at Medium
A photo essay of new work from an assignment on Latino urbanism in the spring issue of Boom: A Journal of California
Photo essay on gentrification of the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal
New photo essays of the The Last Days of the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at the
Wall Street Journal. and San Francisco Chronicle.
American Illustration-American Photography Profiles features an interview by David Schonauer on Seeing Buddha, the Mandela work and other recent projects here.
The Buddhist online magazine Lion's Roar features a Q&A about Seeing Buddha here
The first publication of the new series After Hours in the magazine "Boom: A Journal of California" in print and online here
Ferguson photographs in Rolling Stone video of musician Ben Harperhere
Articles and discussion of the zine are featured online in
Design Arts Daily
Prison Photography
Bag News Notes
News Photographers Association of Canada
Seeing Buddha featured in The New York Times.
Seeing Buddha featured in the Visions section of the February 2014 edition of National Geographic magazine.
Updates and samples from the project can be found at Seeing Buddha.
Photographs from the series Honoring Madiba were featured on the two-sided book jacket cover of American Photography 30. Terrific design by Robert Newman.
more info here
Article written for American Photography's DART online with Doan Cong Tinh, one of four North Vietnamese photographers whose work is being exhibited for the first time out of the country at Visa Pour L'Image, in Perpignan, France.
read here
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Lecture Tuesday night 6pm at SF Camerawork for a series on visual storytelling along with photographer Jessica Christian.
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Just announced: Zen Photography Workshop with David Butow in Oakland and Berkeley, California on Saturday June 11 and Sunday June 12, 2016. Please email seeingbuddha@gmail.com to reserve a spot and for more information.
April 7 6-8pm Popup show and talk at the Gallery at the Leica Store San Francisco
Popup show and talk "The Essence of the Image at Camera West in Walnut Creek, CA on April 14th 6:30-8:30pm
Two-day Zen Photography Workshop in Oakland and Berkeley, California on August 8, and August 16, 2015.
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Opening reception for the group show Heat" on Thursday night, July 23 at SF Camerwork which includes pictures from the Ferguson zine produced earlier this year.
Teaching Leica Akademie Workshop at Camera West in Walnut Creek, California with Leica representative Tom Brichta on June 25.
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Lecture at the Annenberg Space for Photography
Stanford University's Ho Center for Buddhist Studies will be hosting David for a discussion of the Seeing Buddha project in Palo Alto, CA on February, 12 at 6pm. See here for more information.