David Graham is an American photographer and location scout based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked as a location scout for more than two decades. Directors he has worked with include Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Michael Mann.
He studied film production at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 1989. Photography came later. He took three workshops with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, in Barcelona, Havana and Łódź. They became his mentors.
Graham has published two books with Kehrer Verlag: The Last Car (2017) and Locations From a Movie I Never Made (2024). The Last Car is about modern gay life in Mexico City. Locations From a Movie I Never Made gathers 70 color photographs from his scouting jobs and his travels across five continents.
For eight years he also photographed Times Square in New York, before, during and after the pandemic.
