David Quintanilla is a young talented photographer and entrepreneur. Mostly known in the southwest for his surreal portraiture. Quintanilla was most recently nominated as Best Entrepreneur under 30 by What’s Up Magazine and a nominee for Man of the Year from the Rio Grande Adelente. Quintanilla shoots modeling portfolios, weddings, and avante garde staged images. His portfolio includes Hilary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, Ty Pennington, Ju Ju Bee from RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as numerous politicians, athletes, and models. In 2010 he gained national attention for his Boycott Hate Campaign, a photo campaign that went viral via social networking within 24 hours of starting the project. The same year Quintanilla released a strong collection of his work in a coffee table book entitled Complicated Artists. Currently Quintanilla is a guest photographer and main judge for reality TV show Model Material. “People are the most fascinating thing about life. How they look, how they carry themselves, how they like people to view them. It’s an honor when people let me create a story about them through one photograph.” -David Quintanilla-