David DeJonge

David DeJonge is a professional photographer in West Michigan who has been recognized for photographing some of America's most influential people. Some of his subjects include Henry Kissinger, Gerald R. Ford, Madeleine Albright, Jesse Jackson, Newt Gingrich, and John McCain. He was raised in a small farming town in Hudsonville, Michigan and has now spent two decades as a professional photographer in the West Michigan Area. He is the founder of DeJonge Studios, a professional photography studio in the Grand Rapids Area.

WWI Project
David is currently working on and featuring a project to photograph the world's last World War One veterans. There are currently 11 verified veterans left. So far David has photographed Frank Buckles and John Babcock of the US and Henry Allingham, Harry Patch, and Bill Stone of the UK as well as 7 other American WWI veterans that have since passed on. It is David's mission that the first hand accounts of a momentous segment in history, and a powerful reminder of freedom’s cost, will be saved for future generations.

He has been featured on CNN during the unveiling of his Pentagon exhibit featuring the last 9 American WWI veterans. He has also made appearances on ABC News, NBC Nightly News , and the CBS Early Show

Awards
DeJonge has received nearly 100 awards for his work, including worldwide first-place recognition for his documentation of the funeral of Tuskegee Airman Col. Faite Mack, titled The Final Gift, and a national first place for a promotional campaign he undertook on behalf of the Professional Photographers of America. He is a frequent public speaker on the creative and business aspects of photography. He has also won first place in the World for Photojournalism from the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International and Accolades of Outstanding Photographic Achievement and a Master Accolade (WPPI). His traveling exhibit titles "Faces of Five Wars" has been displayed in the Michigan state capital Rotunda and has been seen in part by more than 200,000 people.

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