David Read was formerly a cinematographer. He began his career at the National Coal Board Film Unit, one of the last great industrial film units. He went on to work his way up in the industry on such feature films as "Brazil", "Dance with Stranger", "Champions" and "Another Country" and TV programmes such as "World in Action", "Equinox", "Watchdog", "The Money Programme" and any more.

Since then, David has photographed feature films including the cult horror "Revenge of Billy the Kid", "Room 36", "Desperate Measures", "Respectable, The Mary Millington Story" and worked on many TV productions such as "The Bill" and "Family Affairs".

After retiring from film work, David has turned to stills photography and uses his years of experience at creating narrative through the lens to create striking and original photographs