About: David Allio

David Allio is an international award-winning photojournalist and visual 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.

Since 1978, this self-taught photographer has been a featured instructor and lecturer at a variety of photographic workshops, seminars, and conventions. His instructional topics range 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.

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, politicians, and sports figures, including: Burt Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, the late Paul Newman, Kevin Costner, Carlos Santana, and Willie Nelson, all 18 candidates for POTUS in 2008 and all nine in 2011 for the 2012 election, 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 and Kentucky Speedway.

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, United Press International/UPI Photo, McClatchy, Gannett, Reuters, and Corbis. Professional representation of his digital sports photography is provided by Icon Sports Media.

Born 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 is a resident professional photographer in Kaua'i, Hawai'i.