for immediate release revised: 2008 Apr 30 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. Allio has also been a guest professional lecturer - along with career photographers from "National Geographic," "Time" and "Rolling Stone" - at the International Society of Photographers annual convention. 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 contains a variety of celebrities and sports figures, including: Burt Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Paul Newman, Kevin Coster, Carlos Santata, and Willie Nelson, winners of both the Miss America and Miss USA pageants, U.S. Presidential candidates, 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 a member of both Canon and Nikon Professional Services. He is also a charter member of the Digital Imaging Association. Allio is currently a contract photographer with the New York Times, 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 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. Allio serves as his own webmaster and maintains a website at http://www.davidallio.com.
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