David Papazian

Personal information

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, I’ve been into photography since I was 18, when I made the first of three consecutive summertime trips touring Europe. When my father, who worked in promotions for The San Francisco Examiner, saw the snapshots I took during my first trip, he told me I had a talent for picture taking and he bought me a better camera to take abroad the next summer. A portrait from that trip won a photography contest and before I knew it, I had a photography degree from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif., and—fast forward 28 years!—a successful studio that still has me shooting everything from architecture and lifestyles for home magazines to restaurants and product shots for
national clients

My clients include Red Lion Hotels, Adidas, Jeld- Wen, Corbis, Oregon Home, Sunset, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, architects and designers. As a member of the Portland chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers, I thrive on studying the latest lighting and composition trends and folding some of them into the way I shoot to keep my work fresh and always evolving. I don’t just want to give
my clients what they think they want; I want to give them what they didn’t know they needed to drive their businesses forward.

When I’m not behind a camera, I still like to travel through Europe, take an annual fishing trip in Alaska and work as an extra on any motion picture being filmed in Oregon, which, in a small way, fulfills my passion for the film industry.

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