He has since worked in over 80 countries, documenting the coup in Chile (1973), revolution in Iran (1979), famine in Ethiopia (1984), the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), and the US military intervention in Haiti (1994). A co-founder of Contact Press Images in 1976 with Robert Pledge, he is the winner of the 1973 Robert Capa Gold Medal, the 1979 World Press Photo Premier Award, the Overseas Press Club of America’s Olivier Rebbot “Best Reporting from Abroad in Magazines and Books” Award in 1984, and a first prize in the World Press Photo in 2005. David served as a WPP juror in 1997 and President of its jury in 1999. He taught the WPP Masterclass in 2007.

He is based in Washington, D.C. and New York City

CHRIS MURRAY, who wrote the introduction, is the founder and director of Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C. For over thirty years, Murray has organized more than 200 exhibitions of many of the nation’s leading artists, including Andy Warhol in the 1970s and Annie Leibowitz, whose fi rst show was exhibited by Murray in 1983. Since that time, Govinda has developed as one of the most innovative contemporary galleries in the United States. Murray has been editor of such books as SHOTS: An American Photographer’s Journal, 1967–1972 by David Fenton, Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis by Al Wertheimer, and Days of Hope and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen.

CHRIS SALEWICZ, who wrote the forward, has been writing on popular culture, particularly reggae and other world music, for more than 20 years. He was a senior features writer for NME, has written for The Sunday Times, The Face, and Q magazine and wrote the authorized Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom (with photographer Adrian Boot), and Rude Boy, a memoir about his relationship with the island of Jamaica, among many other books. Salewicz edited the booklet contained in the award-winning 4-CD box set Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music, and co-wrote the script for the 1999 movie Third World Cop, which broke Jamaican box offi ce records.