N. David King's Professional Bio

This shot above was taken on location shooting during the filming of the family picture "Moosie" where David was the movie's producer, 1998.  

Photo © by Joe Butts 2001.  

Photo © Scott Golia 2004

Photo © Jack Yonn 2003

Photo © Greg Vernon (Shot during the Tewa Project, 1982)

David King has been involved in still photography as well as print, film, and video production since the mid-1960s when, while studying painting and printmaking at the University of Denver, he returned to an old interest and started using photography as an increasingly important aspect and element of his art work.

Since then, his work has won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination as Producer for an anti-gang music video. His documentary and lyric outdoor images in still photography have been featured in regional and national magazines and his work among the northern New Mexico Pueblos was the subject of a PM Magazine featured TV segment.  That project, "TEWA," on the Tewa-speaking Pueblos of New Mexico is in the permanent collection of Mesa Verde National Monument and frequently travels throughout the country.  A collection of portraits of Denver’s “Movers and Shakers” was commissioned by and featured at the Colorado Celebration of the Arts.   His work has been exhibited in galleries and private collections around the country.

In addition he produced the images for the pictorial book Santa Fe, The City Different and just completed the book Thinking Digitally both of which are listed elsewhere on this web site (see Publications links at top of page).

Besides  David's still work specializing in editorial portraiture and commercial products and his video/film documentaries and music videos, his award-winning industrial film/video production work has been produced for clients in such wide-ranging industries as corporate, heavy industry, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications, martial arts, law enforcement, education/training, and recreation. He received a ISPI National Award of Excellence for his training video work. 

A documentary on street gangs done for the Denver Police Department ("War on the Streets") received acclaim from police and communities around the country as one of the best programs on the subject produced to that date (1989). 

He has produced programs ranging from short music videos to longer documentary and industrial programs of up to sixty minutes. He has achieved a reputation for bringing in his projects on time and within budget. It is precisely this type of experience and skill that is both an asset and a requirement for being able to produce high quality for the extremely limited budgets.

 David wrote, produced, and directed the western music video Through The Gap starring Bruce Boxleitner and Martin Kove. He wrote, produced, and co-directed the screenplay adaptation for the short feature "Handler" (based on a segment from the Jane Martin play, "Talking With").  Two of his original screenplays are now being turned into novels.

His feature production, a family adventure titled Moosie is now being distributed.  Moosie won a Videographer Award of Excellence, an AXIEM Silver Award for Absolute Excellence In Electronic Media, and a Silver Telly, plus it has been awarded the Dove Seal of Approval for Family Programming.

Continuing to produce still photography, he brought with him lighting and staging expertise honed with the film and video production work. 

David has been teaching Professional Photography as well as Film and Video Production since the late 1970s in California and Colorado.  In January 2000 he returned again to San Diego and taught as an adjunct professor of photography at San Diego City College and at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA.  He also conducted workshops and seminars on various areas of photography, digital photography, and  film/video production.  In December 2004 he was hired as an Assistant Professor of Photography at San Diego City College and now teaches there full time..

In addition to teaching has been a judge of the famous International Photography Exhibition at the San Diego County (Del Mar) Fair since 2000 and is a returning member of the “Digital Dialog” panel of experts in digital photography featured during the exhibition.