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My name is David Truog and this is my personal website. I work at Forrester Research and have also worked at software companies and in filmmaking, running my own production company for eight years. I still code and film for fun but these days I do more photography.
I like the contrast between these two photos of me.
A passport control kiosk at an airport shot this first one and I liked the flat expression and printing method: they reminded me of Chuck Close's paintings (see magnified detail). So while waiting in line, I took this snapshot of the print-out. The kiosks produce mirror images, so it looks wrong to people who know my face but seems normal to me since when I see myself, it’s usually in a mirror, flipped just like this.
This second one's quite different: a corporate headshot (for my work bio) about which the photographer who took it commented that my expression at that moment was very "on-brand."
One photo shot by a machine when I was tired after a long international flight, one by a person coaching me to look "on-brand." The way different situations bring out different sides of us is interesting to me — the various personas we inhabit depending on the situation.
The image on the cover page is a photo of a wall in a side street in Rome near Piazza delle Coppelle that I took in September 2012.
I've tagged some of my photos by region. So far: American West; California; Denmark; England; Florida; France; Germany; Iceland; Maine; Morocco; the Netherlands; New York; Vermont. And there are many others, some of which I’ve grouped by genre into galleries on the site.
