Dave Tacon (b. 1976) is a Shanghai-based photographer, director, producer and writer who specialises in reportage, features and portraiture. After graduating from the University of Melbourne, where he wrote his Honours thesis on German filmmaker Wim Wenders, he interned at Road Movies, Wenders' Berlin production company. Working in both stills and moving images, Tacon's work has appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Travel + Leisure, Women's Wear Daily, ELLE, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review and the Australian. He has also worked for a range of commercial clients and organisations such as the Red Cross, Oxfam, CARE Australia and Medicos del Mundo, and has written for the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. A two-time Walkley Award winner, Tacon has won a Foreign Press Association Award, a Quill Award from the Melbourne Press Club, an EPSON International Pano Award and is a two-time finalist of the National Photographic Portrait Prize. Tacon's work is held in the National Portrait Gallery, National Library, State Library of Victoria and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
