About David Massey

MASSEY, DAVID is a photojournalist, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, now working as a photojournalist/writer in Florida at the Daytona Beach News-Journal, covering Flagler County, the fastest growing county in the nation two years in a row. After graduating from San Francisco State University’s School of Journalism in 2002, he attended the International Center for Photography in Manhattan completing a workshop in documentary photography with David Turnley, and two workshops at the Maine Photo Workshops in 2003 with Magnum photographers Eugene Richards and Eli Reed. After working for nine months at the Lima News/Freedom Communications Inc. daily newspaper in Lima, OH, he freelanced for the Associated Press for two years in Cleveland and Portland, ME. In 2004, Massey spent a year in Gainesville, FL working as a photojournalist for the Gainesville Sun and the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, shooting college sports and working in Thailand after the Tsunami. He also travels to Central America from time to time to visit family and to make pictures. In addition to travel and photography, Massey enjoys skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding.

Writing

Content on this site written by David Massey (includes contributory writing):

  • Projects

    • Survival of the Fastest
    • In August 2006, researchers in California and Illinois used a highly magnified camera to track how fast trap-jaw ants snapped shut their jaws. The concluded that the powerful insect can ...