David's often large-format photographic works celebrate the culture of cities and the decaying beauty of the built environment in surprisingly visceral colour.

Found objects and a concern for strong graphic composition dominate his works; particularly the distressed, unnoticed and forgotten things of the urban landscape – sections of rusted metal, weathered billboard posters, discarded radios, the lines of buildings, a shaft of sunlight.

David's practice of walking, observing and collecting images, has extended to the streets of New York, Mumbai, Paris and Berlin. In these cities he has created documentary projects of industrial buildings, photographed musicians and performers and made hyper-detailed images capturing the intricacy and delicacy of hand-woven textiles, always with a concern for exploring the complexity of colour, from deep cobalt blues to warm magentas and fiery burnt oranges. 

David combines individual images from this vast archive of work; for example contrasting a grand Parisian staircase with elements of the graffitied walls and iron work from a bridge in Cologne, bringing together otherwise unrelated shapes, objects and locations. These composite semi-abstract large-format images are carefully printed onto fine cotton rag papers.