David Guttenfelder

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Sara Snider || Sara.Papademetriou@natgeo.com || +1.202.857.7391 (EST)

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Gina Martin (International) || Gina.Martin@natgeo.com || +1.202.857.7250

Speaking Events:

Diane Curley || Diane.Curley@natgeo.com || +1.202.791.2115 

Deborah Walsh || deborah.b.walsh@gmail.com || +1.310.922.2713

David Guttenfelder is a National Geographic Photographer focusing on geopolitical conflict, conservation, and culture.

Guttenfelder has spent more than 20 years as a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Japan, India, Israel, Ivory Coast and Kenya covering world events in nearly 100 countries. In 2011, he helped open a bureau in Pyongyang for the Associated Press, the first western news agency to have an office in North Korea. Guttenfelder has made nearly 40 trips to the otherwise-isolated country.

Guttenfelder is an eight-time World Press Photo Award winner and a seven-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2013 ICP Infinity Prize winner for photojournalism and a winner of the Overseas Press Club of America John Faber, Olivier Rebbot, & Feature Photography awards. Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA have named him Photojournalist of the Year. In 2016, a photograph of his made in North Korea was named among TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential Photographs Ever Taken.”

Guttenfelder is an influencer and industry leader in smartphone photography and social media. He was named inaugural Instagram Photographer of the Year by TIME magazine, received the Shorty Award for online photography, and the Online Journalism Award. His North Korea mobile phone photography was exhibited at Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan, France, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and at the Cortona Photo Festival in Tuscany. He was part of the panel lecture, "Instagraming the News," at the SXSW digital conference. He taught the first National Geographic Explorer's Smartphone Photography workshop in San Francisco in 2015. He is the founder of the Instagram collectives @everydayUSA and @everydayDPRK. His personal Instagram account, @dguttenfelder, reaches more than 1.1 million followers.

Guttenfelder has also been recognized for his advertising photography and writing, including honors from the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity, D&AD for press advertising, the 2016 AICP award for best Public Service campaign. His commercial clients include Google, Apple, Paramount Pictures, SONY, Instagram, Hyatt, Airbnb, Huawei, State Farm, Jura, Mission 22 and others. In 2017, he was featured in the Squarespace commercial aired during the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony.

His photography has been exhibited at The Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York; The Brooklyn Museum, “El Valor del Momento” in Havana, Cuba, at Visa pour l’lmage in Perpignan, France; and Spain’s Encuento International de Foto Periodismo where he won the “Cuidad de Gijon” International Journalism Prize. His work from the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan was part of “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Guttenfelder is a frequent keynote event speaker, appearing often in the NatGeoLive! lecture series, the Winter 2018 Pop Up Magazine tour, the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among many other events.

As a teacher and workshop lead, Guttenfelder is active with the Visions Workshop Photo Camps in Havana, Cuba and Montana's Crow Reservation. He has been a team leader at the Eddie Adams Workshop. He has lead National Geographic Explorer's photography workshops and was a trustee and instructor with the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation's annual workshops in Vietnam. He has been a professional in residence and lecturer at many U.S. universities. He has served as a jury member for World Press Photo, the Getty Instagram Grant, and Pictures of the Year International.

Guttenfelder studied Kiswahili at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He later graduated with Highest Distinction from the U.S. University of Iowa majoring in Journalism, Cultural Anthropology and African Studies. He was named one of University of Iowa's Notable Alumni.

He is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.