David Hartwell is a Pasadena-based photographer. A British citizen, he was born and raised in French speaking Switzerland. David was formally trained as a photographer taking workshops given by such luminaries as Guy Le Querrec, Luc Chessex and Raymond Depardon before obtaining his BFA in 1991 from Art Center College of Design (Europe). He emigrated to the United States in 1991 where he cut his teeth working for pioneers of the burgeoning multimedia industry. He spent the next twenty-five years developing technical and historical content for the likes of IBM, Disney, Microsoft, History Channel, Discovery, and PBS. In his art, he uses technology and the technical skills he acquired in the commercial field to blur the lines between the world described by science, the world as it appears to us, and the world as we would like it to be. His photographs are constructions both in their making and figuratively. They challenge the audience to reevaluate their appreciation about how craft differs from art, if at all. His photography and artwork have shown at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Wende Museum, WUHO Gallery, Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Louis Poulsen Los Angeles, Palm Springs Art Museum, National Museum of China, Beijing.