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David Degner

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Contact:

+1.646.450.4334 / David@DavidDegner.com

About:

My interest in photojournalism stemmed from a recognition of my own—and America’s—ignorance of Islam and the Middle East in the wake of 9/11 and its wars.  After studying photojournalism and philosophy, I moved to Cairo just before the start of the Arab Spring in 2011.   For the next 9 years, I covered breaking news across Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Sudan, while also working on in-depth stories of religion, human rights, and cultural life in the region.  My work has been published widely, appearing in outlets such as National Geographic, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde Magazines.  One of my long term projects, “Modern Miracles,” which documents the physical imprint of the spiritual world, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Maqad Sultan Qaytbay in 2017. 

I recently returned to Boston to document this moment in the US, while expanding my visual language to incorporate more video and documentary work.

Based in:

Boston / Egypt

Follow on:

Instagram / Twitter

Selected editorial commisions:

National Geographic
Rolling Stone
Der Spiegel
HUCK
Neon
Wall Street Journal
Adbusters
Smithsonian Magazine
TIME Magazine (video)
Newsweek 
Businessweek 
M Le Monde 
New York Times

Telegraph
NYT Magazine 
The Atlantic 
The Guardian 
The National 
Maclean’s 
NBC 
Financial Times Magazine 
Corriere della Sera
GEO
Mother Jones 
Vice 
Daily Telegraph 
CBS 

Institutional commissions:

GIZ
MuCEM Museum
UNHCR
Azza Fahmy
iFit
Coca-Cola Foundation
Sanofi Pharmaceutical
Sharabati Denim
Oracle

Hazardous env. training:

2013, 2019