September Speaker—David Luria
“The Washington DC Area:
A Photographer’s Paradise”
E. David Luria is a
Washington DC-based photographer specializing in architecture, art/still life,
restaurant/ food,editorial/event, commercial, and landmark photography. A member
of the American Society of Media Photographers, Mr. Luria has had his images
appear in over 80 publications, including TIME, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Prevention,
Italian Cooking and Dining, and WHERE Magazines, in the Washington Post, the
Wilmington News-Journal, the Hamburger Abendblatt, and the Tokyo Shimbun
newspapers.
Mr. Luria describes
himself as a photographer of "places and faces." Trained in Paris,
France, at the Parsons School of Design by a protégé of famed French
photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, Mr. Luria places a great deal of emphasis on
strong, clean composition lines in his photography. As a photographer of events
and activities, Mr. Luria has traveled and photographed extensively in Latin
America for the Partners of the Americas organization. He also served as photographer
to the City of Hamburg, Germany, at an exhibition entitled " Jerusalem of
the North: The History of the Sephardic Jews of Hamburg". Mr. Luria is
also a teacher of photography.
A member of the Society
of Photographic Education, he is founder and director of the popular Washington
Photo Safari (www.WashingtonPhotoSafari.com) through which he and his team of professional
photographers have trained several thousand clients since 1999 in the
techniques of travel photography, both film and digital. This program is now
the DC area's largest provider of photography training field excursions, offering
2-3 photo safaris every week, all year long, with special workshops in
nighttime photography, interior museum photography, beginner and advanced
digital photography, pet photography, outdoor portraiture, and real estate and
event photography.
He also serves as a
photo study tour instructor for the Smithsonian Associates, the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, the Kreeger Museum, the Octagon Museum, and Hasselblad USA. His
Washington Photo Safari has received extensive press coverage in the Washington
Post, on WTOP Radio, AAA Magazine, on the Discovery Channel, and on the NBC "Today"
Show Prior to becoming a professional photographer, Mr. Luria had a long career
as a senior executive with several international non-profit development aid and
citizen exchange organizations, such as CARE, Partners of the Americas, and
Delphi International. His work has brought him to more than 40 countries around
the world. A graduate of Amherst College and a US Army veteran, Mr. Luria is
fluent in Spanish, French, and German. http://www.edavidluriaphotography.com/index.htm