David Burnett

Great photography and some interesting PP on some of the Olympics shots, EG the dressage shot; should we give him the benefit of the doubt that what looks like dirty sensor marks are really balloons:)
Great to see the Holga being used in such serious subject matter too.
 
Love the salt flats shot
 
Thanks for showing this Pete. David Burnett has worked as a photojournalist for as long as I can remember and formerly he worked also with his brother whom I can't remember his first name. I think David was employed either in a newspaper in Detroit or Chicago when he first started out. Well here's a little from his biography;
David Burnett has been photographing the world for more than 35 years. He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 with a B.A. in political science and began working as a freelancer for Time and then Life, first in Washington, D.C. and Miami, and later in South Vietnam.
After two years in Vietnam, Burnett joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for their news department for two years.
In 1976 he co-founded Contact Press Images in New York. Since then, he has traveled extensively, working for most of the major photographic and general-interest magazines in the United States and Europe. His work encompasses news, features, people, landscapes, and scenics. He is known as someone who can—no matter how challenging the assignment—return with the picture.

Burnett's work is featured in the 2006 post-Katrina National Geographic article "New Orleans: Home No More," and in the magazine's 2007 article, "Orlando: How Walt Disney Changed Everything."
 
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