David Freese
David Freese was born in Mineola, New York, in 1946 and was raised in Garden City, New York. After graduating from the University of Rochester, he taught photography in the United States Army Signal Corps in 1969 and 1970. He then worked for more than thirty years as a freelance assignment photographer shooting corporate/industrial and editorial photography on location. During that time, he also worked as an assignment/contract photographer for Zuma Press in San Clemente, California, and for Gamma Liaison in New York City. Freese now teaches in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University and also directs the photography program at Burlington County College. His photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of the Haggerty Museum of Art, the Polaroid Collection, Library of Congress, Denver Art Museum, Center for the Study of Place, and Allentown Art Museum to name a few. His photographs have appeared in Communication Arts, pdn (Photo District News), Photo Insider, Polaroid International, Popular Photography, Smithsonian Air and Space, and View Camera magazines. Freese has received both a Fellowship in the Visual Arts and a Special Opportunity Stipend from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as well as a Polaroid Artist Support Grant.