Photography
Grand Canyon Aurora Borealis?
This summer I had a two-day shoot in Scottsdale, AZ. My wife tagged along and we stayed for five days after the shoot. After spending some time with a friend in Tucson we drove up to the Grand Canyon. We were camping at Mather Campground on the South Rim, and one night I decided to go over to […]
Tom Wolf Walk-A-Day
Millionaire Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf got a first-hand view of what it is like to be a low-wage home health aid on October 3, 2014. Wolf’s experience was part of a“Walk-A-Day,”where a candidate spends a day on the job with a service worker. Tom Wolf spent the day with Aretha Spady, a […]
Mt. Rainier
Back in July I had to fly to Seattle for a video project I was working on. This trip would mark the third time I’d traveled to Seattle. And, yet, I had never gone to Mt. Rainier National Park. The mountain looms in the distance reminding you every time you look in its direction that it […]
Proposed Comcast Skyscraper
Over the last eight months I’ve done a few shoots for Foster + Partners, an architecture firm in the U.K. The project was top secret, and I was not allowed to tell anyone about what I was working on. In fact, I knew little about the project myself — only that there were plans for […]
King Tut statue created in Germantown unveiled at Texas museum
Late on Halloween night, Philadelphia artist Miguel Antonio Horn began unearthing a giant concrete sculpture of King Tutankhamen with a team of other artists in Germantown. Horn had been commissioned by the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art with a grant from the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation to produce the four meter statue to accompany a […]
Chicago by River
Kayaking the Chicago River A few weeks ago I had to fly out to Chicago for a video project I was working on. After the interview I had about two hours to see the windy city. Just across the river, I saw a big sign that read“Urban Kayaking.”I investigated and found that I […]
Dave Tavani
Dave Tavani is a freelance videographer based in Philadelphia specializing in the arts and nonprofit storytelling.