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David is a freelance photojournalist focusing on in-depth photo-essays for publication and exhibition. Between 1986 and 1996 he produced 16 photo-essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. His photos have also been published in Aramco World, Chicago Tribune, Geo Magazine, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic Publications, Newsweek Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Post Magazine, among other publications. In 1988, Wells received the Nikon/National Press Photographers' Association Documentary Sabbatical Grant. In 1989, he received a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his photo- essay on the pesticide poisoning of California farm- workers. In 1991, Wells received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation's Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation. In 1994, he was awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts for his photo-essay on the relationship between Arabs and Jews. Wells' photographs have been shown in over forty exhibitions across America and overseas. His work has been featured in one-person exhibits at the University of Rhode Island, London's Gallery Ezra, the Centro Colombo-Americano of Medellin, Columbia, Brown University, the University of California at Berkley and Harvard University. His work has been included in group exhibits at the National Center for Photography as an art form in Bombay, India, the Houston Foto Fest, Visa pour l'Image Photojournalism Festival, Perpignan, France and the Museo Bardini of Florence, Italy. His work has been published in portfolios in, American Photographer, American Photography Four, Camera and Darkroom, Camera Arts, Communication Arts Photography Annual, Graphis: The Human Condition, Nikon World, Photo District News, Photo Magazine (France), Photographers International (Taiwan), Photo Techniques, Zoom (Italy). His work is in collections including the Jewish Museum of New York City, Light Work Photography Center of Syracuse, NY, the McGraw-Hill Collection of New York City, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York City, the National Center for Photography as an art Form of Bombay, India, the Price-Waterhouse Collection of New York City and the Santa Barbara, California, Museum of Art. He has been an Artist-in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, the Peters Valley Craft Center in Layton, New Jersey, the Visual Studies Workshop of Rochester, New York, and the Lights Works Photography Workshop in Syracuse, New York. Wells was born in Albany, New York in 1956 and has a Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts with a concentration in the history of photography from Pitzer College of the Clarement Colleges, Claremont, California, 1979. |
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| David H. Wells 25 Pitman street, #2 Providence, R.I. 02906 Ph/Fax (401) 521-4602 18percent@uri.edu |
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