Notable Awards
David has been nominated, given honorable mentions in, and won several awards competitions consistently for the last couple of decades. Those include the following. (You can view some of the photos here – WARNING some contain nudity as art)
| September 2025
   
David recently won a Judge Favorite award in a night time city photography competition on ViewBug, a web site popular with members of the photography community for his night time photo of Philadelphia.  | 
| September 2025
   
David was recently honored with an invitation to participate and an honorable mention in the Exposure One Photographer of the Year Awards  | 
| July 2025
   
David was recently awarded the “Momentum 2025” Award from Viewbug for his outstanding work in Photography.  | 
| June 2025
   
David was recently awarded “The Eye” Award from Viewbug for his outstanding eye for Photography.  | 
| November 2024
  
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| David was honored with an international honrable mention for his image titled Martini in the B&W Spider Awards | 
| November 2022
    
David was honored with an international nomination for his untitled image in the B&W Spider Awards  | 
| November 2021
    
David was honored with an international nomination for his untitled image in the B&W Spider Awards  | 
| November 2020
    
David was honored with an honorable mention for his image titled “Flame” in the B&W Spider Awards  | 
| October 2019
   
David was honored with an international nomination for his image titled “First Dance” in the B&W Spider Awards in the Children of the World category. A full press release can be viewed here. The image gallery can be seen here.  | 
| January 2019
   
David was honored with an international nomination for his image titled “Fleur” in the B&W Spider Awards in the Nude category. A full press release can be viewed here. The image gallery can be seen here.  | 
| February 2018
  
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| March 2017
   
David was recently honored with an International Color Award Nomination for his entries in both the Nude and Abstract categories. You can see the images nominated here and here and the press release here. You can see the image gallery here and here.  | 
| March 2016
   
David was recently honored with an International Color Award Nomination for his entry in the Architecture category. You can see the  image nominated and the press release here. You can see the  image gallery here.  | 
July 2015
see | me   Exposure Awards
David was honored as one of the photographers published in the SeeMe Exposure Awards book in the Documentary Collection as well as having the chosen piece displayed in the Louvre, Paris.  | 
| March 2015
   
David was honored as one of the 20 creatives exhibitors in OC Weekly’s 2015 “Artopia” show.  | 
| October 2013
   
David was honored with an international nomination for his image titled “Miscarriage” in the B&W Spider Awards in the Fine Art category. A full press release can be viewed here. The image gallery can be seen here.  | 
January 2013
B&W Magazine Single Image Award
David was awarded a B&W Magazine single image award for “Metaphor/Abstract” for his image titled “Miscarriage”, and was published in the February 2013 Single Image Award Special Edition on news stands now. The image can be found on page 217 or you can see it here.  |