About

Photographer, journalist, broadcaster and author, David Pratt has spent almost four decades working as a war correspondent and covering foreign affairs. In that time his work has been published and broadcast worldwide.

Among the many media outlets to which he has contributed are the BBC, The Herald, Sunday National, The Scotsman, Sunday Times, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, Svenska Dagbladet, Channel 4 News, Reuters, Agence France Presse (AFP), Al-Jazeera, The National (Abu Dhabi), Sogo Magazine and Black + White Photography Magazine.

Educated at Glasgow School of Art, from where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, he then taught art and design history at the world-renowned school before beginning to focus full-time on documentary photography and journalism.

Among many accolades for his work, he has been named Journalist of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards. He has also twice been Reporter of the Year and twice Feature Writer of the Year and is a five times finalist in the Amnesty International Media Awards for human rights reporting.

He is author of Intifada - The Long Day of Rage, a reportage account of the Palestinian uprisings. His life photographing and reporting on conflicts around the world has been the subject of a BBC Scotland / Screen Scotland television documentary series.

The first two films in this series Pictures From Afghanistan and Pictures From Iraq, were both premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in March 2020 and 2022 respectively. A third film Pictures From the Balkans was also broadcast in 2022. Pictures From Ukraine formed a two part film that was shown on BBC Scotland in 2023.

Though best known for his documentary photography much of Pratt’s other Fine Art work is influenced by the abstract images of painters ranging from Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and the New York School to Sean Scully, Richard Diebenkorn and Nicolas de Stael.

Photograph of David Pratt: Elaine Livingstone