| David Binder is an award winning photojournalist, a successful commercial photographer and a first time documentary filmmaker. |
David's photojournalism has been published extensively by magazines throughout the world. His editorial clients include; People magazine, US News and World Report, Life Magazine, The New York Times, Paris-Match, Forbes, Fortune and Business Week.
He has twice been recognized by the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism, The National Press Photographers "Best of Photojournalism" a New England Foundation for the Arts Grant, as well as other national and regional awards. David received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant Award in 2001. David's intimate and involved story-telling approach has earned him a reputation for illuminating his subjects and their lives with perception and compassion.
Exhibitions of David's work have been presented at The United States Senate, The Harvard AIDS Institute, The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA, The National Museum of Health and Science in Washington, D.C., The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA, and The Wilson Hicks International Conference on Visual Communications in Miami, FL. His work on AIDS is currently the centerpiece of a touring exhibition sponsored by the United States Centers for Disease Control. Entitled "What About AIDS?", this educational exhibit has been displayed in more than 40 cities throughout North America.
David is currently in post-production on his first documentary film. His debut as a filmmaker, tentatively titled, "Calling My Children", came about directly from his photo essay of Gail Farrow and her family and their struggle with AIDS and its aftermath, a work that has spanned 18 years. Some of his most noted work has been the chronicling of people caught up in the AIDS vortex, including activist Jon Parker's illegal underground needle exchange program, Playboy Covergirl Rebekka Armstrong's life with the disease and Camp Sunburst, the summer camp in California for families affected by AIDS. His deep engagement with this ongoing story is evident in every frame of this film.
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