David Gillanders is based in Glasgow, Scotland.
David’s obsession with the black and white still image developed in his early teens whilst training as a boxer in Glasgow. He became hypnotised by the posters and photographs on the walls of the boxing clubs where he trained and sparred. At the age of 16, when he got fed up of being punched in the head, but still loved the atmosphere and characters in the boxing world, he returned to the clubs with a camera and started to take photographs
In the late 1990’s, David won a couple of local photographic competitions with his black and white documentary street scenes of Glasgow life. On the back of this success, he began to secure regular commissions from several of Scotland’s leading broadsheet newspapers and magazines, whilst juggling his day job in the construction industry. Through regular photographic commissions, David further developed as a photographer and was able to quit his full time employment in 1999 and devote all of his time and energy into long term photographic projects which interest him.
David married Kirsty in 1999 and has two sons, Cameron Jack (aged 6), and Brodie Mac (4). They currently live in Glasgow, Scotland.
Exhibitions:
Malawi" at Gallery FCB in New York, January 2007
Besprizorniki" (The neglected ones) at the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam, December 2006
Risk" (Glasgow Knife Crime) at the Foam Gallery in Amsterdam, November 2006
"The Chewa of Malawi" at Offshore in Glasgow, May 2006
"Besprizorniki" (The neglected ones) as part of Fotofreo in Perth, Australia, March 2006
"Besprizorniki" (The neglected ones) at the DGP Gallery in Glasgow, January 2005
