Award-winning photojournalist David Liscio can often be found outdoors, studying nature or participating in adventure sports such as sailing, skiing, sea kayaking, rock climbing, rappelling, scuba diving and whitewater rafting. A skillful writer and creative photographer, he captures these and other experiences on assignment for a wide range of national magazines.

Based in the coastal community of Nahant, MA, just north of Boston, David is a volunteer firefighter and member of the town’s Ocean Rescue Team, as well as an adjunct professor of environmental science at Endicott College. Assignments have taken him aboard nuclear attack submarines, military jets and helicopters, tanks and armored personnel carriers, patrol boats and cargo planes. He has traveled to the South Pacific to document the heroin trade carried out by Japan’s Yakuza gangsters, and covered the activities of New York and New England organized crime families. He has trained with the Navy SEALs, accompanied the Coast Guard on homeland security patrols and search-and-rescue missions, and joined the Army for training operations. He once followed a platoon of Marine recruits through the rigors of the legendary boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., losing a camera to the water obstacle but winning a feature story award from the Associated Press.

David is the recipient of 15 journalism honors, including a 2005 IRMA Award for a magazine photo essay, a 2004 Boating Writers International Award and a prestigious Publick Occurrences Award, the latter so named for the nation’s first newspaper. An author and columnist, he also holds several awards from the AP, United Press International, and the New England Newspaper Publishers’ Association. Environmental groups have exhibited many of his photographs, and the editors of a Massachusetts newspaper submitted his feature series on Saipan for a Pulitzer Prize.

David teaches classroom and field workshops on marine photography at such places as Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Mass., the oldest continuously run boat shop in America. An avid sailor, he has skippered bareboat yachts on assignment for Sail, Sailing, Cruising World, Offshore, Soundings, and other nautical magazines, in places such as Belize,the British West Indies, South Carolina Sea Islands, Florida Panhandle and the coast of New England.