I first met David White in the lobby of a hotel on the banks of the Nile in Egypt.¬† I thought he was alright but when I saw his photos it was love at first sight.¬† A few years previously I¬† stumbled across a Sebastiao Salgado exhibition in Liverpool. I had no idea who the guy was but his photos changed my life.¬† It wasn’t that they were so heart bleedingly great, it was that they smacked my conscience around the gallery, followed me home and waged war on my dreams.¬† I was twenty three and it was the first photographic exhibition I’d ever seen. Almost everything else was a disappointment after that, even a subsequent Salgado exhibition I saw in Walsall.¬† Then I met David in Egypt. A straight talking guy with a refreshing lack of pretentiousness who lives to shoot and shoots from the heart.¬† Rare amongst photojournalists he doesn’t seem to be trying to save anyone, or himself,¬† and he’s not preoccupied by misery, in-fact his images often reveal mystery and hope. Some of them are just damn funny.
This is selection of some of my favorite White images. There’s a lot of great stories behind them so if you ever meet David, say for example hanging out in the lobby of an Egyptian hotel, buy him a beer and settle yourself in for the night.
This slideshow is best seen fullscreen.¬† Click on the button just above where it’s written ‘credits’.
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