From the website: In his own words, David has a "fascination with the undoing of the landscape." He has become most widely known for his aerial work, which includes extended studies of North American mines, clear-cut forests, urban sprawl, evaporation ponds and other peripheral industries of the Great Salt Lake.
From the website: "For the most part, I'm interested in landscape images not merely for what they look like, but for what they make us feel, and for what they might represent metaphorically. I've also wanted my pictures to take the viewer to places and sites they've never seen before, with a resulting sense of alienation or displacement. I'm less interested in being warm and fuzzy than in being harsh and cruel! [laughter] Those possibilities don't exist when looking at the familiar."
