David Lasker
We’re a widely published team of event photographers and videographers working under the leadership of David Lasker. David has won awards from Travel Media Association of Canada for Best Evocation of a Place: Dark Sky Festival, Jasper, Alberta (Zoomer); and North American Travel Journalists Association for Portrait, People: Hans Staud, Vienna's Marmalade King (Toronto Star) and Location: Occidental Royal Hideaway, Playacar, Mexico (Cruise and Travel Lifestyles). His photography has been published in Architizer, Award (cover), Building, Canadian Architect, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Interiors, Ensemble Vacations, Ensemble Weddings, Interior Design, Metropolis, National Post (Post Homes section cover), Officeinsight, Ottawa Citizen, Retrofit (cover), The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star (Real Estate section cover) and other periodicals; and in advertisements, brochures and catalogues for Peerless lighting, Borgo Contract Seating, Focus Wine Cellars, Forest Hill Optical, State of New Hampshire Travel and Tourism Development, Ven‐Rez Products, Wightman Telecom, Wilsonart and other clients. Other highlights: Certificate in Music Performance, Juilliard School of Music, Preparatory Division; Bachelor of Arts (history of art), cum laude, Yale College, awarded the Walter Louis Erich Memorial Prize for my senior essay The Architectural and Symbolic Evolution of the Gothic Façade in the Ile-de-France in the 12th and 13th Centuries; Master of Music, Yale School of Music. Principal double-bass, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Editor-in-Chief at Canadian Interiors, and Canada’s Contract magazine; Fashion & Design Editor, and Fine Arts Editor, at The Globe and Mail; design columnist at The Los Angeles Times Magazine; and Canadian correspondent for Interior Design, and OfficeInsight. As President of Toronto-based public relations firm David Lasker Communications, David specializes in content creation and media relations for architects, interior designers, product designers, builders and suppliers.