David Allio is an international award-winning photojournalist and digital artist. His professional portfolio ranges from sports, editorial and corporate to glamour, fine art and portraiture. Since 1974, his unique photographs have appeared on album covers, postcards, posters, billboards, calendars, display advertising and in movies, books, catalogs, magazines and other periodicals. Outside North America, Allio is best known and honored as an accomplished traditional and contemporary nude figure artist. In North American, he is better-known as a professional photojournalist defined by his vivid editorial and feature images.

Since 1978, this self-taught photographer has been a featured instructor and lecturer at a variety of photographic workshops and seminars. His instructional topics have ranged from traditional darkroom techniques to elements of digital sports photography. His audiences vary from high school students to senior citizens, and beginning amateur shutterbugs to career professional photographers.

His photography and digital artworks have been exhibited in museums, art galleries and private shows throughout the United States, in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries. Allio nudes have recently been featured in NY Arts Magazine, AntiDull, and NuExpo. And in 2006, an Allio art exhibition was presented in The Saatchi Gallery, London Contemporary Art Gallery. His original Limited Edition Prints and Commissioned Works are prized by private collectors worldwide.

Throughout a professional motorsports photography career that spans four decades, he has won an assortment of American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) awards for motorsports photography. He is a former official NASCAR photographer and spent 17 years as a contract sports marketing photographer for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company at various AMA, IHRA, IMSA, NASCAR, NHRA and USHRA series events. Since the mid-1970s, he has served as the chief track photographer at ten different race tracks, including the Bristol Motor Speedway. Allio is currently the Chief Track Photographer at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Born in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, David Allio is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Communications and Visual Arts. When not traveling on assignment, David and his wife, Jacqueline, a UVaW summa cum laude and CPA, reside in Kaua'i, Hawai'i.