DAVID EVANSis an award-winning Creative Director, Executive Producer, and Photographer, specializing in cross-platform media production focused on issues of international development, , sustainability, global health, education, cultural anthropology, scientific research, and philanthropic advocacy for organizations like National Geographic Society, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations Foundation, The Global Fund, Smithsonian Institution, Discovery Channel, and others.

Evans’ background includes executive branding, marketing, and creative positions on 3 continents, including DDB Needham Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, and National Geographic Television, where he played a key role in brand development for the global launch of the National Geographic Channel.

Assignment highlights include spending nearly a month each in Chad and Tajikistan documenting expeditions of the National Geographic Genographic Project, numerous occasions as exclusive photographer for Bill and Melinda Gates, and documenting the first days of United Nations response to the 2010 Haitian earthquake.

Evans has also served as an International Election Observer for The Carter Center deployed to electoral missions to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia.

Exercising flexibility, diplomacy, and discretion, Evans works seamlessly on extended assignments with high-profile public figures, celebrities, documentary film crews, and embedded with rural indigenous cultures.

His work has appeared in print, broadcast, and cable around the globe.

Fluent in Spanish, David Evans resides in Washington, D.C., visiting his second home in the Venezuelan Andes whenever possible.


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In January, Evans landed in Port au Prince, Haiti, less than 48 hours after the earthquake that killed as many as 230,000 people. Traveling with UN Foundation Global Health VP Dr. Dan Carucci, Evans flew 3 missions to Haiti over 5 days, bringing supplies and personnel to the UN compound, evacuating people back to the U.S., and bringing back some of the first images and footage of the most devastated areas.

In February, PDN Magazine ran a double page advertorial titled "Dazzling Images from Around the Globe," describing Evans' travels and how the National Geographic gear he uses aids his photography.

Also in February, Digital Photographer Magazine's Ukraine edition published a lengthy editioral piece dedicated David's work. The 14-page article included 24 images from around the world, and an extensive interview.

March 24 - May 23 David will be leading a production crew to Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Indonesia to create a video for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.


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In January, Evans traveled to Sri Lanka, where he photographed the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage and life along the Galle Coast on the 4th anniversary after the devastating tsunami.

Evans produced a number of films in the U.S. for Independent Sector and led a film crew to Ethiopia to document gripping stories about United Nations Foundation efforts to stop childhood marriage, prevent malaria deaths, improve maternal health care, and reduce childhood mortality.

Evans also spent 4 days in the Berkshire Mountains photographing American Folk Music Royalty, the Guthrie Family, for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.



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In October, David traveled throughout Romania, shooting stills for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In November David had an exhibit of photographs and selected pieces from his folk art collection at the NCSU College of Design in Raleigh, NC. The SRO opening reception and lecture was on November 5.

Much of August was spent in Brazil as Executive Producer of video materials about fair trade coffee for the National Geographic Society. He was the still photographer on the same project and hopes to have images and video posted soon.

In April, David received 2 awards for photographic excellence by the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

Also in April, David spent 2 inspiring weeks taking photographs in and around inner city schools in the Bronx and Brooklyn for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Another profile article about David appeared in February's PDN Magazine as part of the National Geographic Gear On Assignment photographer endorsement program. Featured in the double-page spread were images from China's Tibetan Plateau and Three Gorges Dam region, and David's anecdotes about the benefits he gets from using National Geographic/Bogen photo gear.

A multi-spread profile and interview of David appear in the March 2008 edition of Digital Photographer magazine, Ukraine edition.

In February, Evans completed an assignment in Honduras, photographing an economic development ad campaign. The ads will run in magazines like Forbes and Fortune.

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This year, one of David's images from Chad, shot for National Geographic Society and published in IBM's annual report, was selected for inclusion in the prestigious PDN Photo Annual.

PDN Magazine published a double-page spread profiling David and his work as part of the National Geographic Gear On Assignment photographer endorsement program promoting National Geographic's line of photography equipment.

David journeyed to China as an invited guest of China Foto Press and the party governments of Chongqing and Hubei provinces, documenting the changing life and culture along the Yangtze river and in the Three Gorges Dam region.

In 2007 David worked extensively for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). He traveled with Bill Gates to Mexico, with Melinda Gates to Chicago and Los Angeles, and with foundation CEO Patty Stonesifer to Mexico documenting school, library, internet, micro-finance, and community-improvement initiatives. He traveled alone for the foundation to places as diverse as Massachusetts and Latvia documenting and reporting on foundation initiatives.

Evans work was selected to appear in two major Chinese photography exhibits; he had 50 images in the 2006 First Annual Qinghai Photography Festival and several images in the 2007 "Through the Eyes of Foreigners" exhibit in Beijing.

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During his 6 years as Creative Director for National Geographic Television and Film (NGTF), David played a key role in the worldwide launch of the National Geographic Channel, and directed NGTF's Photo Operations department.

He's taken on editorial, advertising and promotional assignments around the world and his images have been published and broadcast by and on behalf of the best names in documentary media and philanthropic missions.

David has served on 4 occasions as an international electoral observer working with The Carter Center in Venezuela, Ethiopia and Nicaragua.

When he's not on assignment, David splits his time between Washington, D.C., and his hideaway in the Venezuelan Andes.