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I built my chops the old-fashioned way shooting feature-length assignments around the world for National Geographic Magazine. The stories varied but the mandate was always the same: work with every kind of person under any kind of condition and create timeless yet contemporary images for a client with the highest visual standards on earth.

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“Lives unlike mine, you save me. I would grow so tired were it not for you.”

-Naomi Shihab Nye

David McLain is a Maine-based photographer and filmmaker whose work explores big questions through intimate stories. He has shot 7 feature stories for National Geographic Magazine, photographed the NYT best-selling cookbook Blue Zones Kitchen, shot for major brands like Sony and Apple, and DP’d the feature documentary Bounce, which premiered at SXSW.

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