Contact:
email: davidjshawphoto@gmail.com
phone: +44 (0) 7791 101 072
insta: @davidjshawphoto
David J Shaw:
Located in St Leonards-on-Sea, south coast UK, working across the UK and internationally.
Photographer and journalist working on stories, projects and assignments related to the themes of community, identity and representation alongside investigations into human rights and social issues.
Available for assignments, commissions and collaborations.
I have editioned prints available. Email me to purchase, and you can see them here.
Selected Editorial Clients/ Publications:
The Guardian
Der Spiegel
NZZ
Source Photographic Review
Al-Jazeera
De Volkskrant
BBC Countryfile Magazine
VICE
NPLH Magazine
Mundial
The Economist
The New Internationalist
The Financial Times
BBC
The Blizzard
HUCK
Howler
The Bark
Rabona
Delayed Gratification
The Huffington Post
The LA Review of Books
Contra Journal
NGO:
Solidarités International
ORBIS International
ICRC (Red Cross) Lebanon
UNDP
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society
The Barka Foundation
The Rustic Pathways Foundation
International Solidarity Movement
Selected Awards:
World Report Award 2025 - Student Award - Shortlist
Portrait Of Britain 2024 - Shortlisted and included in vol7 of the Portrait of Britain book.
Photography Foundation Grant Shortlist - 2023 and 2024
RPS Post Graduate Bursary - Shortlist - 2024
Photo North Student Award - Winner - 2024
Photography Foundation Grant Shortlist - 2023
UAL Home Postgraduate Scholarship - 2023/24
The Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award - Highly Commended - 2016 and 2018
Royal Society for Public Health – Flash Points - 2nd Prize - 2017
TPA/ RPS Environmental Bursary - Shortlist - 2015
The Peter Kirk Scholarship - 2014
The Ian Parry Scholarship - 2013 - Finalist
Ideas Tap/ Magnum Photographic Award 2013 - Finalist
London Olympic Torch Bearer - 2012
Guardian Student Media Awards - 2012 - Runner Up
Freedom House 'Worst of the Worst' Photographic Award 2012 - Finalist
Beghind Jospeh Photographic Competition - 2011 - 2nd Prize
Bar Tur Photographic Award - 2011 - 1st Prize
Vice Magazine - Koppaberg Klash 2010 - Runner Up
Training
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography - London College Of Communication - 2023/2025 - Distinction
BA Photojournalism - London College of Communication - 2013 - 1st Class Honours.
Workshops:
Canon Student Development Programme - 2024
NikonNOOR Workshop Manchester - 2017
VII photo agency masterclass Berlin - 2016/17
Eddie Adams Workshop - 2014
Exhibitions:
Solo:
UPCOMING - Jaywick Sands Happy Club - Photo North Festival Leeds - 2026
‘Caeadda’ Festival of Ethical Photography - Lodi/ Italy - 2025
‘Jaywick Sands Happy Club WIP’ - The Broadway Club Jaywick - 2025
‘Jaywick Sands Happy Club - In Progress’ - Picnic - St Leonards - 2025
'Caeadda' at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb - Machynlleth - 2024
'Pride In London' at Stamford Bridge Football Stadium - 2024
'England Fans In Russia' The Bomb Factory Art Foundation - 2018
'England Fans In Russia' - National Football Museum in Manchester 2018
'Widows of Vrindavan' – Salisbury Cathedral – 2016
Group:
‘Tesserae - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography graduation exhibition - Photofusion London - 2025
Photo North Festival - ‘Student Award’ - 2024
InPro Collective group show at Ostroleka Photography Festival in Poland - 2017.
Retina Photo Festival - Emerging Talent - 2017
Fotograf vakfi – Multimedia installation at SALT gallery Istanbul – 2016
9th International Phodar Photography Biennial Exhibition – Bulgaria – 2015
Not a Drop' group Exhibition London 2013
'Resistance in Palestine' - Solo Exhibition at 'Occupy Londons' Magistrates Justice Court - 2012
Upshot - Creative Journalism and Photojournalism - Group Exhibition as Nolia's Gallery - 2012
'Our Stories' - Touring Exhibition appearing around the UK - Curated by 'The Photographic Angle' - 2012
Foto8 Summer Show - 2011