David Allio is an international award-winning photojournalist and digital artist. His
professional portfolio ranges from sports, editorial and corporate to glamour, fine art
and portraiture. Since 1974, his unique photographs have appeared on album covers,
postcards, posters, billboards, calendars, display advertising and in movies, books,
catalogs, magazines and other periodicals. Outside North America, Allio is best known
and honored as an accomplished traditional and contemporary nude figure artist. In North
America, he is better-known as a professional photojournalist defined by his vivid
editorial and feature images.
Since 1978, this self-taught photographer has been a featured instructor and lecturer at a
variety of photographic workshops and seminars. His instructional topics have ranged from
traditional darkroom techniques to elements of digital sports photography. His audiences
vary from high school students to senior citizens, and beginning amateur shutterbugs
to career professional photographers.
His photography and digital artworks have been exhibited in museums, art galleries and
private shows throughout the United States, in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and several
European countries. An Allio image has been featured in NY Arts Magazine. And in 2006, an
Allio art exhibition was presented in The Saatchi Gallery, London Contemporary Art Gallery.
His original Limited Edition Prints and Commissioned Works are prized by private collectors
worldwide.
Allio's commercial client list contains several Fortune 100 companies, including: RJR,
Time Warner, UPS, plus ad agencies for General Motors and Ford. His extensive portfolio of
published images contains a variety of celebrities and sports figures, including: Burt Reynolds,
Sandra Bullock, Paul Newman, Kevin Costner, Carlos Santana, and Willie Nelson, winners of both
the Miss America and Miss USA pageants, plus professional football, baseball, basketball,
motorsports and golf athletes.
Throughout a professional career that spans four decades, he has won an assortment of
American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) awards for motorsports
photography. He is a former official NASCAR photographer and spent 17 years as a contract
sports marketing photographer for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company at various AMA, IHRA,
IMSA, NASCAR, NHRA and USHRA series events. Since the mid-1970s, he has served as the
chief track photographer at ten different race tracks, including the Bristol Motor Speedway.
Allio is currently the Chief Track Photographer at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
In November 1999, David Allio was selected by Lycos, Italy, as one of the top four modern
erotic artists/photographers in the world. According to Tatiana Tartuferi, Editor, Lycos
Bertelsmann: "Allio's work represents a great mix of traditional influences in modern
artistic techniques."
In 2001, Allio and his images - photographs and digital artworks - were the subject of
a 30-minute feature broadcast on PBS. The program entitled "Impressions" was produced
by South Carolina Educational Television.
Allio is currently a contract photographer with the New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times,
Stephens Media, Knight Ridder, United Press International/UPI Photo, Gannett, and Reuters.
Professional representation of his digital sports photography is provided by
Icon Sports Media.
Born in 1955 in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, David Allio is a graduate of the University
of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Communications and Visual Arts. When not
traveling on assignment, David and his wife, Jacqueline, a UVaW summa cum laude and CPA,
reside in Kaua'i, Hawai'i.
