David R. Hanlon is a Missouri native and has been a practicing photographer for more than 25 years.  The images he has created during this time have concentrated on the characteristics and issues of landscape, architecture and portraiture.  From 1990 - 2001 Hanlon was the chief photographer of the archaeological excavation at Tell Tuneinir in Syria, displaying and having his work published in venues throughout the United States and the Middle East.  In 2007 and 2008 he was the photographer for the excavation of Markovi Castle in Skopje, Macedonia. His images are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Kentucky Museum of Art, and numerous private collections.

Hanlon is presently the coordinator of the photography program at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and has taught at the college since 1990.  A photographic historian, researcher and writer about early photography, Hanlon has had essays published in an exhibition catalogue produced by the Bennington Museum and in the periodicals History of Photography and Ohio Valley History. In 2006 he organized and curated two exhibitions, Russell Sturgis: Critic, Historian and Collector, and Of Spirit and Form: The Monuments of France in Photographs by Edouard Baldus and Médéric Mieusement, at the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis.









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