Selected Press

The Wall Street Journal. Taking on the Tragic in Unconventional Portraits. By William Meyers

CNN. One Voice of All Refugees. By Rebecca Home

Annenberg Space for Photography. Video excerpt from Iris Nights Lectures.

La Lettre de la Photographie. David Zimmerman Last Refuge. By Carole Naggar

TIME Lightbox. Clothing as Artifact: David Zimmerman's "Last Refuge". By Jared T. Miller

The New York Photo Review. Discarded Landscapes. By Ed Barnas

NPR. Putting a Face on the Oil Spill. By Claire O'Neill

No Caption Needed. David Zimmerman: Portraits from the Gulf Oil Spill. By Robert Hariman

ARTINFO. World Photography Awards

BP Photography. Great Masters. By Conchita Fernandes

About

David Zimmerman is an American photographer who works on long-term projects of landscape, portrait, and social documentary photography. His works include landscape photographs in the desert regions of the southwestern US, landscape and portrait work in homeless and marginalized American communities, and large-scale portraits of Tibetan refugees in India.

Zimmerman's interest in the arts began at an early age, while studying sculpture and painting at the University of Wisconsin. In his late teens, he began working in landscape and street photography while living in Europe and the Middle East. Upon returning to the U.S. he studied at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, graduating with a BA (Hons) Photography (1981). Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he would live and work for the next 25 years. Since 2006 he has divided his time between New Mexico and India. 

Zimmerman's work consists of numerous projects including Desert, for which he was awarded the L'Iris d'Or Prize by the World Photography Organization. Mary Ellen Mark described the works as "a unique vision of the beauty, poetry, and power possible in great landscape photography."

Zimmerman is co-founder of the Himalayan Art Centre, a free-school dedicated to teaching visual storytelling through photography and filmmaking in under-served regions of the Indian Himalayas. Zimmerman is a member of the World Photographic Academy.

Zimmerman's monograph, One Voice; Portraits from the Tibetan Diaspora, was published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.