Bio

David Allan Brandt has created a vast body of work, which includes a surreal series of romantic worldscapes combining people with urban structures and whimsical dreamlike environments. These elegant black & white and color creations along with his fashion work and environmental and studio portraiture make up a series of beautifully designed images that show his artistic versatility. David began his career as a photojournalist, and then attended and graduated from Art Center College of Design, while still in college he became chief staff photographer for EMI Records. He later opened his own studio in Los Angeles which serves as his home base for international travels, producing advertising campaigns for American Airlines, Sony, Microsoft, Estee Lauder, Visa, General Electric, Canon, AT&T, Mercedes Benz, Toyota, Hennessy, K Swiss, SC Johnson, Hitachi, and Kawasaki to name a few. His commercial work along with his personal projects that range from the conventional to the abstract is always a search for using the ordinary to create the extra-ordinary expression of life and art. His images have won him numerous awards from around the world, including Archive, Communication Arts, Graphis, American Photography, PDN and many more as well as having his work featured in several of these and other books, publications and exhibitions around the world.