David Curry, a native of Los Angeles, has been living and working in New York City for over 20 years. In 2002, he bought a home and established an additional studio in Miami.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Antioch University West in San Francisco. Subsequently, he has done graduate study in communication graphics at Pratt Institute and has completed Robert McKee's intensive writing course on character-driven story structure as well as numerous other seminars on the visual arts from Ansel Adams to Buckminster Fuller and Ray Bradbury.

With a strong background in architecture, humanities and graphic design, he supports his photography by designing interactive web sites for a variety of clients in the visual arts including the ADAA, South Street Seaport Museum, The Painting Center, Didier Aaron Fine Art and Islip Art Museum. He has also worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Knoedler Gallery, The Mexican Museum, Old Pueblo Museum in Tucson, Walt Disney Company and the Ayrton Senna Collection in Brasil, among others.

His work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, and Japan. Collections include the Library of Congress, Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, and the Faculdade de Belas Artes de São Paulo, Brasil. His work has been published in numerous magazines and books from New York Magazine, The Brasilians and Notorious to How, Photo Marketing, Women in Film, Art in America and Caribbean Travel & Life.

Having shot extensively in Brasil, he served as still photographer working with the film director, Ricardo Dias on the documentary Fe (Faith). The project explored the annual pilgrimage of the rural poor during The Feast of São Francisco de Assisi, near the northeastern town of Forteleza.

Selections from In Memorium WTC 2001 were on exhibit at The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University in April, 2002, and presented to the Western Museum Association and the Mountain Plains Museum Association. Excerpts from the photo essay have also been shown on the websites for the Southeastern Museum Conference (SEMC), The ART Project, The September 11 Photo Project, New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) and Here is New York, where it also travelled in exhibitions in February, 2002, to the Chicago Cultural Center, the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) sponsored by The German Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Life of the City project, and was acquired by the Smithsonian Institute. The essay is also included as a special feature of the September 11 Digital Archive, co-produced by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media and City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center’s American Social History Project which was acquired by The Library of Congress. It was also an integral feature of September 11: Bearing Witness to History, an exhibit at the National Museum of American History.

In addition to In Memorium WTC 2001, he has also completed; an essay on the Aeta tribes displaced by the aftermath of volcanic eruption in the Philippines, who as a result have become scavengers and beggars; cock fighting in the Dominican Republic; and an ongoing series documenting Buddhist and Christian cemeteries around the world to further explore the ways in which we mourn the dead.

David Curry is currently working on an evolving photo essay concerning the faces behind the masks at Carnavals in Miami, Santo Domingo, Panama, London, Toronto, and New York as a celebration of the living.

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