David Freese worked for 30 years as a freelance location photographer who concurrently pursued his image making passions as an artist and as an educator. He now devotes his full attention to his fine-art photography which includes projects and books. 

Freese is the photographer/author of four photo books: West Coast: Bering to Baja, 2012; East Coast: Arctic to Tropic, 2016; and Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf, 2020, which comprise the Trilogy on North American Waters in a time of rapid climate change. Iceland Wintertide, 2021, a smaller size, soft cover book, is a fitting coda to the trilogy. 

His work has been published in a PhotoEditor, Communication Arts, Hyperallergic, Il Post (Italy), Lenscratch, MIT Technology Review, Monthly Photography (South Korea), Photo District News, Polaroid International, Popular Photography, Slate Behold the Photo Blog, Smithsonian Air and Space, Time-Life Books, and View Camera. 

David has exhibited internationally, and his photographs are in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Haggerty Museum of Art, Haverford College, Library of Congress, James A. Michener Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum of Art, Polaroid Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, among many other museums and corporate art collections. 

He has received a Polaroid Artist Support Grant and both a Fellowship in the Visual Arts and a Special Opportunity Stipend from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as well as artist grants for photography by the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Aegon Transamerica Foundation.