Born in Peru, in the southern department of Moquegua (which is a Quechua word meaning “a silent place”), David spent most of his growing up in Vermont: Tunbridge his hometown, and Middlebury his college town. A journey that began as a sports photography internship at a small, local weekly newspaper has recently taken him back to Peru for a photographic essay on religion and ritual in the Andes.

While learning about his roots, David learned Spanish and a few words of the native Quechua of the Puno and Cuzco regions, all the while working on his master’s thesis project for the University of Missouri.