David Maisel was born in New York City in 1961. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1984 and went to the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University from 1988 to 1989.

For more than two decades, David Maisel has explored American landscapes that have been transformed by severe environmental damage. Captured from an aerial perspective, Maisel’s photographs appear as abstracted, yet complex, maps of the abused terrain that serve as means to meditate on contemporary consciousness. Nazareli Press will publish an extensive catalogue on this important body of work in 2004.

David Maisel has exhibited widely in the United States. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where he is the vice-president of Photo Alliance, a non-profit organization devoted to contemporary photography. His works are represented in many museum collections, including LACMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.