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David Degner

Boston Photographer and Photojournalist

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Robert Leverett measures a tall tree, by boston photographer, David Degner.

environment · history

The Old Man & The Tree

Just outside of Boston, I photographed stands of old-growth forest, home to many of the tallest trees in New England. Published in Smithsonian Magazine.

Photojournalism by the Boston photographer, David Degner. An infrared photograph of military police in Boston, Massachusetts.

military · politics

Show of Force

Infrared was originally developed to reveal the presence of military positions in conflict zones. In this ongoing series, I use infrared film to highlight the growing militarization of American civic life.

Photographer, David Degner's, first project abroad in Xinjiang China.

uighur · culture

Xinjiang Before the Camps

In recent years, the world learned of China’s vast system of Uighur control and detention in Xinjiang. In 2008, I spent a year documenting life in Xinjiang as these policies were only in their infancy.

religion · investigation

Modern Miracles

Over the course of five years, I set out to photograph the spaces where the spiritual meets the tactile world. Published by National Geographic and the subject of two solo exhibitions.

Photographs from both sides of the Syrian revolution. Photojournalism by the Boston based editorial photographer, David Degner.

civilian · conflict

Syria From Both Sides

During the Syrian revolution, only a handful of photojournalists received visas to report from the government-held territory. On several trips, I photographed the front lines of both the government and rebel sides.

Pigeon portraits, photos made in pigeon coops around Cairo, Egypt.

beauty · animals

Fancy Pigeons

In American cities, pigeons are rats with wings. In Cairo, they are an art form.

As a Boston photographer,

I tell people’s stories truthfully, with curiosity and respect. I lived in North Africa and the Middle East for almost ten years, photographing culture, politics, and war for global magazines and newspapers. In 2020, I moved to Boston to document this dynamic moment in the US.

I also enjoy photographing for publications, companies, and other institutions to tell their stories. Most of my commercial photography is around New England, but I have been commissioned for projects worldwide.

In my photography, I use a wide set of skills, including drone photography, video production, portraiture, and infrared photography. The most important skills are still the journalistic basics of getting closer, listening carefully, and witnessing.

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  • Protected: In the Tunisian Desert without a GPS
  • Nor’easter Covers Boston in Snow
  • Proving or disproving the longhouse theory will require another dig. But the bigger story is how the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe will continue working with Williams college to identify and repatriate artifacts, and bodies of their ancestors. They are also working with the city of Stockbridge to identify and document their historic homes.
    The Berkshires are Mohican
A photo of Ahmed Abdelfatah, lays on the simple lunch of bread and spices that his mother ate, he was sentenced with the 683 in the governorate of MINYA,  EGYPT on May 26.
Radia Radwan Youssef Atta, 36, the wife of Ayman Mohamed Mehdi Eissa, 38 disappeared on the road from his rural Beni Suef to his job in a photocopy shop at Cairo University Beni Suef.
Family members of the defendants who were sentenced to death in a mass trial of 500+ in Minya,  Egypt on March 27.

In Egypt, many stories would discuss how X number of people died at sea, disappeared into prisons, were burnt alive in police custody, etc. While covering these stories I would sit with the families and they would show me the portraits of their loved ones. This is my small memorial to those victims.

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I'm a freelance photographer in Boston, working on editorial, commercial, and personal projects.

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