About

David H. Wells is a commercial photographer, photo-essayist and photo-educator in Providence, Rhode Island. His photo-essays have been published in magazines and shown in exhibitions across America and around the world. Portfolios of his work have also been featured in American Photographer, Camera and Darkroom, Camera Arts, Nikon World, Photo District News, Photo Magazine (France), Photographers International (Taiwan), Photo Techniques, and Zoom (Italy.)

His commercial photography has been published in Aramco World, Chicago Tribune, Geo Magazine, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic, Newsweek Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Post Magazine, among other publications.

Wells has received two Fulbright fellowships to India as well as grants from Nikon/N.P.P.A., the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation's Program of Research and Writing on International Peace, the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Wells has taught semester length classes as well as shorter intensive workshops at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, the University of the Arts, the International Center for Photography in New York City, the Maine Photographic Workshops, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

In 1979 Wells received a Bachelor of Arts in the liberal arts from Pitzer College of the Claremont, California Colleges where he concentrated his studies in the history of photography.