I have been taking photographs for well over 20 years. Starting out on the highschool newspaper staff I focused on capturing and recording events in a more journalistic vein. Since relocating to New Mexico in 2002 I have refocused my goals from simply recording places I've been and people I've met to more artistic efforts. To this end my studio has become a greater extension of my workflow. No longer is the camera the sole tool for creating images. Using an all digital production process that also includes a workstation and Epson R1800 printer, my aim is to accurately render the emotional reality of a scene. A digital camera changes significant aspects of a scene when an image is first captured. Further changes are made when rendering a scene on a display monitor and even more changes can creep in during the final printing phase. I use Photoshop and other available software tools to minimize these distortions as much as possible while at the same time allowing me to enhance the aspects of an image that first drew me to capture the scene in the first place.

David Gunter was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri - Kansas City, receiving a bachelor of science in physics in 1992. He received a Ph.D. in computational condensed matter physics from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1999. After working as a post-doc at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, IL, he moved to New Mexico in 2002. He currently works at Los Alamos National Laboratory.