Having spent the last 15 years visiting hundreds of locations in Southern and East Africa, David Rogers has developed a deep understanding of the African landscape, it's plants, animals and also its people and travel industry.
   Prior to setting up his own business in 2000, David spent seven years as assistant editor at Getaway magazine writing and photographing more than 100 features including 20 cover stories for which he won several awards.His clients today include Africa Geographic, Getaway, Sunday Times in South Africa, Sunday Telegraph in the UK, Geo and Travel Africa.

    During the last five years he has photographed more than 150 lodges for a book series, called Safari in Style www.africa-geographic.com/safari/ thereby acquiring a unique and up-to-date appreciation of lodges and their features. Titles in the series include Winelands in Style (2009), Safari in Style Indian Ocean Islands, Safari in Style South Africa (2008), Safari in Style Indian Ocean Islands (2007), Safari in Style East Africa (2006), Safari in Style Zambia (2005) , Safari in Style Southern Africa (2004) .

    Horbill Press, which is David Rogers imprint, has published Classic Safari Camps of Africa (2007) and Jacis the Recipe (2006).

      David has written and photographed several books for Struik Publishers in Cape Town including Zambia Landscapes, Zambia Tapestries, Drakensberg Tapestries, Etosha National Park, Kruger National Park and Sea Kayaking in South Africa. His most recent book is Southern Africa's Living Landscapes
    David started his career at Reader’s Digest Special Books where he updated the Guide to Game Parks of Southern Africa and was also the researcher for several touring guides.  Also in the early part of his career David worked as a communications consultant for a large insurance company where he edited several award winning newsletters.
   David was born in Cape Town and went to the University of Cape Town where he studied Environmental Science and English with a view to becoming a teacher. He still lives in Cape Town, in the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom, and has a wife and two young boys.
   David has also photographed for many commercial clients including Land Rover USA, Halcyon, Samara Lodges, Quelilea, Anjajavy and others. Ultimately it is creating photographs and writing text that serves as ambassadors for wildlife and its preservation that is his enduring passion and interest.

David Rogers offers a full Commercial Photography facility with the emphasis on photographing lodges. He shares the experience that he has gained while photographing lodges at the David Rogers Hotel and Lodge Academy which runs once a year in Cape Town. It is a practical hands on course that offers experienced photographers the abiity to upskill themselves in this particular area. He is also a guide and runs Photographic Workshops in Namibia, Zambia and South Africa. David is a writer as well as a photographer and this combined skill has led to the formation of Hornbill Publishing which produces selected books on game lodges and also postcards. David continues to write feature articles for many top publications and also has a Image library which has more than 30 000 images. Photographing people is an enduring passion and he runs a portrait studio from his home which focusses on producing family portraits