A lifelong Marylander, Dave Harp operates a corporate and editorial photography business in Cambridge, MD.  He is a 1969 graduate of Ohio University, with a degree in English literature.  He served as the staff photographer for the Hagerstown Morning Herald and was the photographer for The Baltimore Sun Magazine for nearly a decade before establishing his own business in 1990.

Mr. Harp’s magazine work has taken him from the coast of Normandy for a story on the 40th anniversary of D-Day to western Australia for coverage of the America’s Cup and to the tropical rain forests of Panama for magazine and corporate photography.  His magazine credits include The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Audubon, Sierra, Natural History, Islands, Travel Holiday, and Coastal Living Magazine.  He has produced annual reports for multi-national and regional companies such as EDS Corporation and Carefirst Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland.

He was awarded the Andrew White Medal by Loyola College for his Chesapeake Bay photography in 2004, is a past president of the American Society of Media Photographers, and was appointed by Governor O’Malley to the Maryland State Arts Council.  Mr. Harp can be reached through his web sites

www.chesapeakephotos.com  and www.davidharpphotography.com